Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congress after a rule was abolished that permitted only a single candidate selected by the Communist Party to seek office. Perhaps more tellingly, the government for the first time in the crisis pointed an accusing finger at outsiders for fomenting student unrest, a signal to some of growing official alarm in Peking about continued student protests. The government accused Taiwan of ordering its "agents" to exploit the demonstrations, with the goal of toppling the party from power...
...charter service, increased from 150 to about 400, and ! the roster of passenger carriers grew by 97 (to 157). The FAA offers another explanation for the rising number of near midairs: its reporting system has improved. In 1983 the FAA began installing what controllers and pilots call a "snitch" alarm system. Aircraft now move across a controller's green radar screen as a blip of light in the middle of a round white "halo" or "doughnut," representing an area that has a diameter of five miles. The aim of the controllers is to "keep green" between the doughnuts. Whenever...
...Some pilots object to the snitch alarm as a superfluous electronic Big Brother, but few approve of controllers defeating the system. Charges a veteran American Airlines captain: "Dropping a plane from the screen is playing fast and loose with human life to avoid being pinpointed for a mistake. It's unconscionable...
...suite's residents, Michael D. Cooperson '87, was sleeping when the blaze broke out. Cooperson is not thought to be responsible for the fire in any way. He awoke at the sound of the smoke alarm and safely left the building...
...publication of hospital-specific mortality rates has provoked both interest and alarm. Hospital representatives faced with such potentially inflammatory hard numbers express concern that the consumer may not be able at all to tell the differences between a bad hospital (with high death rates due to poor care) and a good one (with high death rates due to very complex patient cases). The daylight of data has starkly shown the poverty of measurement methods...