Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smoke missiles while dropping a bulky parachute-equipped 500-lb. bomb. Hamilton, alone among all Gunsmoke pilots, elected to try an F-16 computer program called dive toss. The pilot fixes the target inside a box projected on the up screen, punches his pickle button as if setting an alarm for a wake-up call, then flies toward the target. The computer drops the bomb. "The other pilots would have thought I was crazy to let the computer decide," Hamilton admits. Like a fox. The aging warrior scored a near perfect bull's-eye each time and became this year...
...December 1986. New York City. A patient at Montefiore Medical Center could have died when his tracheal breathing tube fell out. Reason: no one on the understaffed night shift heard the respirator alarm...
...subject matter of almost universal concern," says Mitchell Daniels, president of the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. "There's genuine alarm about year after year of rotten performance...
...reasonable person could think that the spoof was being presented as factual. But the jury agreed with Falwell's complaint about emotional distress and awarded the televangelist $200,000. Despite the novelty of the verdict, an appeals court upheld the judgment. The jury's award to Falwell set off alarm bells among journalists, political cartoonists, comedians -- anyone who might poke fun at public figures...
...fresh look. Some feature do-it-yourself extensions; others are brand new, built on cleared lots or over old foundations. This home-ownership drive has produced profitable spin-offs for black businesses, ranging from contractors and suppliers of building materials to dealers in instant lawns and burglar-alarm systems. Moses Mahlalela, 41, a design engineer with offices in one of the new Soweto shopping centers, can hardly keep up with demand. "I'm so busy I haven't had time to build a place of my own," he says, pointing to the dozen or so blueprints on his drawing boards...