Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that day U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry warned about the deadly dangers of tobacco in a blockbuster report. Frightened smokers promptly resolved to give up the habit; some scared souls stubbed out cigarettes on the spot. Last week the Federal Government marked the 25th anniversary of that first alarm with a new Surgeon General's report that charts the progress in the war against tobacco. The past quarter-century has seen "a revolution in smoking behavior," declared C. Everett Koop, the current Surgeon General. "In the 1940s and '50s, smoking was chic; now, increasingly, it is shunned." But, he continued...
...have been issued special pass codes that unlock the doors, as the computer records to the minute everybody's comings and goings. Even the Arvays' two-year-old niece Jennifer is served by the system. Whenever she toddles too close to the pool, a motion detector sets off an alarm that can be heard throughout the house...
...wing position locked its radar on one of the Floggers. In numerous past skirmishes, Libyan pilots had reported any such radar targeting to their ground controller, who had always told them to break off and head home. This time, U.S. authorities insisted, the pilot did not send any such alarm...
Despite the alarm with which scientists view this trend, biodiversity has just surfaced on the world's political agenda. The troubles of high-profile animals such as the tiger and rhino grab public attention, while most people hardly see the point of worrying about insects or plants. But extinction is the one environmental calamity that is irreversible. As these lowly species disappear unnoticed, they take with them hard-won lessons of survival encoded in their genes over millions of years...
...give an alarm for your office...