Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Signs should be posted inside and outside all elevators saying: "Report all alarm bells between (working hours) to (phone number...
...policies regarding elevators are utterly inadequate, and this in two respects: (1) The elevators in Holyoke Center are not kept in good working order; at least one of the six elevators breaks down every week, and to those of us who work in Holyoke Center the ringing of the alarm bells seems to be constant...
...system be justified which permits an hour and twenty minutes to elapse before the call goes out to the engineers? How can a system be permitted to continue under which people stuck in elevators have to lean on the alarm bells for hours without ever being told that they have been heard...
...funds, has contributed to a climate in which ambitious blacks can aspire to owning their own businesses. Typical of the new entrepreneurs is Electronics Engineer George G. Rock of Manhattan. Until last year, he was a high-paid employee of a defense contractor. When the firm developed an airborne alarm device to prevent collisions between planes, Rock acquired the rights to the device in return for a promise of royalties. With $173,000, part of it lent through a Government program, he opened Rock Avionic Systems, which will market the device...
...alarm has also been sounded at the nation's medical schools, which count on the Government for almost 50% of their operating budgets; in the new budget, they will get 15% less money next fiscal year than this, and 25% less than they had hoped for. The University of Washington's medical school, for one, stands to lose at least $7,000,000 in federal grants. As a result, it is cutting back on its training of nurses and pharmacists, and may lose 100 faculty members. The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine plans to increase tuition...