Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international financier with a personal fortune once estimated at $450 million. Nonetheless, when Michele Sindona, 59, was reported kidnaped in New York City last week, hardly any one showed signs of alarm about his safe ty, not even the federal prosecutors who had planned to try him next month for fraud. The charges stem from his pur chase in 1972 of a controlling interest in New York's Franklin National Bank, which collapsed two years later in the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. Reason for the calm: just about everyone figured that the kidnaping was a hoax...
...public announcement of the proffered resignations produced a level of alarm and dismay that apparently surprised Carter and his inner circle. When the State Department reported that there was consternation in several overseas chancellories about what the effect might be on U.S. foreign policy, Carter authorized top aides to disclose that he would not accept the resignations of Vance, Defense Secretary Harold Brown and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Almost everyone else was left to sweat out the President's decisions...
...story. Pearson hectored Forrestal with innuendo and false allegations while he was the nation's first Secretary of Defense; later, just before Forrestal killed himself, other reporters wrote discreetly of his nervous breakdown, but Pearson published an account of how Forrestal, at the sound of a fire alarm, had dashed out into the street crying, " The Russians are attacking! & amp;quot...
Suddenly, a shrill alarm shatters the control room's silence. Red lights flash on the instrument panel. One of the reactor's steam condensers has lost its vacuum, causing a turbine "trip," or shutoff. No longer is the reactor able to shed heat produced by its radioactive core. Ominously its temperature climbs, threatening to boil away the coolant. Unless something is done fast, there may be a meltdown, spilling lethal radioactive gases...
...Government has been watching the seemingly chronic economic and political crisis in Turkey with alarm, frustration and a measure of self-recrimination. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott reports...