Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sheer nonsense for the President to be talking about Star Wars. In the talks, he should be concentrating on ICBMs, which are an absolute with regard to arms control." But Ball agrees that the elimination of nuclear arms cannot be achieved overnight, and would in any case alarm other NATO members. "The Europeans believe that World War III would be inevitable if there were no strategic deterrent protecting them. The idea of relying exclusively on conventional weapons distresses them, especially those who remember World War II. These are matters that should be considered in detail, if negotiations resume...
...Eliot P. Feldstein '88, of B-Entry, who was roused from his bed by the alarm, thought it was just his alarm clock going...
Although "It was a lot louder than I thought my alarm was, I staggered into the shower, and by the time I got out, the fire alarm was over," he said...
...minutes after students returned to their rooms, the alarm went off a second time, witnesses said. However, it stopped almost at once...
...blackbirds on a telephone wire. One flies off, they all fly off. One flies back, they all fly back." That view of journalism, however unfair, is widely held even among journalists. It has become commonplace self-criticism that news organizations tend to converge on a social trend, stir up alarm, then lose interest in unison and move on to some other concern. Last week a debate heated up about whether the media have collectively hyped the nation's drug problem, especially the threat posed by crack, a potent form of cocaine. At the forefront was an unlikely critic of media...