Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...openers, "we risk losing the standard of living that we have taken for granted for so many years." But Americans will make the sacrifices required -- most prominently, paying $150 billion or so in new or increased taxes over the next four years -- because they never fail to heed "alarm bells in the night...
...last week Bill Clinton rang those alarm bells, playing a thunderous overture to his address to Congress this week. He will probably need every decibel. The economic plan he outlines this week is stunning both in size -- some aides estimate it may shift as much as $400 billion in taxes and spending over the next four years -- and scope. Its scores of proposals cover items as small as layoffs and lesser perks for the White House staff, calculated to save a penny-ante $10 million a year, and as large as new energy taxes that could raise as much...
...Your alarm goes off, since when you went to bed the night before you intended to outline a chapter before your morning classes. Wake up. Reflect on fact that your best friend has won a Rhodes to study at Oxford for two years, your roommate has been accepted to grad school at Dartmouth, your high school boyfriend just signed with Morgan Stanley, and you can't even commit to spring break plans. Moan in despair. Snooze...
...uncommon but annoying fire- alarm ritual of getting out of bed and shuffling outside into the bitter cold has become all too familiar to the irate residents of Dunster and Mather houses in recent weeks...
According to a member of the Cambridge Fire Department who identified himself only as :operator number five," the penalty for a false fire alarm is a $500 fine or one- year imprisonment...