Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Philip Rosenblum '89 said that he discovered the fire on the second floor of the freshman dorm shortly before midnight and put it out just as smoke triggered the building's alarm...
Matthews resident Michael Metzger '89 said he saw ashes and charred paper on the floor of the second-story bathroom before the alarm began ringing...
While the Argo was being maneuvered around the Titanic, Ballard revealed, it had a couple of close calls, once hitting the bridge, another time brushing against a smokestack. Despite his initial alarm, neither the Argo nor the Titanic was damaged in these encounters. But in the process, the submersible collected the only artifact so far brought up from the great liner: a smudge of paint scraped from the smokestack. Ballard also disclosed that after "mowing the lawn" with highly advanced technological gear (sweeping his sonar back and forth and checking its soundings with a magnetometer), the expedition had actually located...
...alarm shattered a droning Labor Day in Passaic, N.J., a gritty industrial city of 58,000 that lies practically in the shadow of Manhattan's towers. When fire fighters reached the scene, they encountered what one called "a ball of fire" about 50 ft. high roaring down an alley of the factory complex alongside the city's namesake river. The blaze churned into an inferno that leapt explosively from building to building, incinerating one instantaneously and then--boom!--vaulting on to the next. In the end, some 1,000 fire fighters were powerless to stop it. Fueled by a variety...
...widespread alarm about AIDS in schools, especially among parents who fear that their children could be infected by a classmate, is understandable, but it is not supported by medical evidence. Last week the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta issued a report aimed at providing authoritative guidance to schools and parents. The CDC found that "based on current evidence, casual person-to-person contact as would occur among schoolchildren appears to pose no risk . . . (Most of) these children should be allowed to attend school and after-school day-care . . . in an unrestricted setting." Indeed, there are no known instances...