Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fire alarm that went off in Lowell House at about 9 a.m. Saturday morning was not reactivated until later that afternoon...
Building residents were fearful that their entries did not have the protection of a fire alarm for most of the day, a Lowell House proctor said yesterday...
...cash in on what has become a $500 million to $600 million annual security business. As many as 90% of the luxury cars sold in California are equipped with antitheft devices either in the factory or at the dealership. There are glass sensors, tiny microphones that set off an alarm if they pick up the tinkling of broken glass. Motion sensors and shock sensors go off if the car is jolted or bounced. Clifford Electronics Inc. offers a remote-triggering device that shuts off the car's electronics, so that when a carjacker gets a block or so away from...
Alonzo did spend some memorable times with the swim team, though--like the time she was late to her first practice as a freshman because her alarm didn't go off. Or the time her eight-months-pregnant coach started having contractions in the middle of the final meet of Alonzo's career...
Strong denies the existence of left wing intolerance at Harvard. "There is a general liberal respect between the left and right," he says. "Harvard's not as bad as they [conservatives] make it out to be. They look for straw figures, and raise more alarm than there really is cause...