Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zucker will, however, indulge in a bit more sleep, The Times reports. He plans to set his alarm for 5:30 a.m., an hour earlier than usual...
Soon only an alarm that indicates an open door will appear on the screen and the name of the person entering the dorm will be removed, says Lichten, who is in charge of the system...
...abandonment, cruelty to children and misdemeanor reckless endangerment for leaving alone daughters Nicole, 9, and Diana, 4. The girls were left with a refrigerator full of food and a note full of instructions -- but no information on how to contact their parents. The children were found when a fire alarm went off and Nicole called 911. The girls are now in state custody...
...Deux Magots and Le Flore, thrive by serving up literary nostalgia to tourists; even off the beaten track, visitors still find the city bristling with humble neighborhood cafes and their newer manifestation, the wine bar. But among the natives, the statistics of decline have prompted a cry of alarm, with newspaper articles and even a television special deploring the slow extinction of le zinc. A government poll showed that 62% of the French feel cafes are an "indispensable" part of life. A festival at the Paris Videotheque inventoried 110 films centered on cafes...
...imagines Hesse, who couldn't afford studio assistants, subjecting herself to a routine of repetitious semi-craftwork as punishing as any weaver's or assembly-line slave's, all in the interest of one restrained, tough, unappealing image that seems to oscillate between fear and desire, irony and alarm. There are boxes and boxes, but not many are as powerful as this...