Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many need to do so, for few can boast any real brawn. "It's the best-kept secret in America today -- the lack of youth fitness," declares former Pro Football Coach George Allen, chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. "It's a disgrace." The alarm comes as a shock to most parents. Nine out of ten believe their own youngsters are physical marvels, a Louis Harris poll reported for Children magazine. In truth, 40% of boys and 70% of girls cannot do more than a single pull-up, according to a survey...
Imbot's unheeded alarm showed how the European political conscience can be very different, and far less exacting, when it comes to conspiracy in high places. That is one reason why Iranscam has had limited impact in much of Europe. Government officials and the general public are not shocked by the facts of Iranscam so much as by its mismanagement and the extent to which the scandal is traumatizing the Reagan Administration...
...LATE SEPTEMBER the abduction of Mug'n' Muffin by the latest bank in the Square didn't alarm me. The growing infestation of mercantile marauders stirred in me no more than a vague feeling of camaraderie with the old men that wander shopping malls shaking their heads at VCRs and two-dollar loaves of bread...
Every time it happens it seems a bit like the beginning of doomsday. And it happened again at 6 p.m. last Sunday: an alarm shrilled, lights flashed in the control room. A monitor was signaling that the water cooling the plutonium- producing N reactor at Hanford, Wash., had dropped below acceptable levels. Shutdown...
Just a few hours after the Hanford reactor turned itself off last week, the authorities knew there had been a false alarm. "It was a faulty monitor," said Steven Irish, a spokesman for U.N.C. Nuclear Industries, which operates the reactor. "There wasn't a low-flow problem." And so, on Monday evening, technicians started "pulling rods" as the first step in starting the machine up again. Not for long, though. This week the N reactor, which produces nearly one-third of all U.S. plutonium, will be shut off again, for at least six months, for a long-overdue safety overhaul...