Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students were more critical of the evacuation of the building on the day of the spill. Students said the Building D fire alarm was mistakenly set off, allowing several people to leave the building before exits were sealed. That mistake, lab users said, may have allowed people to walk outside with radioactive shoes...
...Scott maintained that Harvard's rank "is a cause for concern, not alarm. It's not where we are on the list that matters, but whether we can win sources of support for projects faculty members want...
...library's alarm went off at about 8:30 p.m., forcing approximately 50-students outside until they were permitted to reenter at about...
...nuclear weapons materials may be located. By withdrawing from the treaty, the Kim Il Sung regime removed the legal basis for the "special inspection" threatened by the IAEA. The pullout intensified fears that North Korea may now be capable of producing nuclear weapons; South Korea and Japan expressed particular alarm. International trade sanctions might be imposed, but that threat carries limited weight vis-a-vis North Korea, already one of the world's most isolated economies...
...bags of urea and some bottles of nitric and sulfuric acid. Mix the urea and acids into a thick paste, put the glop in plastic bags, then pack them in a cardboard box. Next attach either a blasting cap or a detonator made of some batteries, an alarm clock and a container of nitroglycerine. But be very, very careful. "If it spills on the floor, and you scuff your shoe in it," says an explosives expert, "you could make...