Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rising interest rates are regarded by stock investors with alarm. The recent drop in the stock market has been caused by the dollar's weakness abroad and inflation fears in Phase III-but most of Wall Street's anxiety can be linked to rising interest rates. Tight credit can drag on the economy, and high rates on bonds can attract available funds, driving down stock prices...
...announcement had been made almost anywhere else, it would probably have been dismissed as one more false alarm. But the word came from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, fons et origo of epochal research into man's relationship with the microbes: Institute scientists had devised a vaccine to protect against the present generation of influenza virus and against generations yet unborn. The vaccine, said last week's announcement, will be available almost immediately...
Shortly after the robbers entered the store, a silent alarm, set off accidentally, alerted the police. Within minutes they arrived at the store, just in time to catch the gunmen leaving by a side door. They were using one of the store's owners, Samuel Rosenblum, as a shield. After a rapid exchange of fire, in which one policeman was wounded in the hand and arm, the four men retreated into the gun shop. There they took the twelve people in the store as hostages...
...Lang Suan ("The Lane Behind the Orchard"). In the hot tropical sun of high noon, two men in leather jackets climbed over the wall enclosing the compound, while two others, well-dressed in dark suits, strolled in through the front gate. Before the guard could raise any alarm, he was staring down the muzzles of submachine guns. The Black September Arab terrorist group, perpetrators of the Munich massacre (TIME, Sept. 18), had struck again...
Stephen S. J. Hall, vice president for Administration, said yesterday that the University is also in the process of installing a Delta 2000 computer system in the Undergraduate Science Center which will monitor the utility and fire alarm systems in addition to operating the locking system...