Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to MIT news officials, fraternitymembers asked the teenagers to leave after one ofthem allegedly pulled a fire alarm in thebuilding...
...British are coming! The British are coming! And this time, they're not coming by land or sea, but by air! That cry of alarm can be heard in Dallas, Chicago and Atlanta these days, as leaders of the top U.S. airlines wail about a threat to their hard-won global dominance. While on the campaign trail, Bill Clinton joined the chorus of alarm. In the final presidential debate, Ross Perot sounded the most impassioned warning of all. "We're getting ready to dismantle an airlines industry in our country, and none of you know it," he declared. "This deal...
...central players in England's decision are the 1,300 women deacons who will now be eligible for the priesthood. A far larger audience, however, watched the drama unfold and braced for the repercussions. The great churches of Eastern Orthodoxy were silently dismayed. The Vatican looked on with alarm, having vowed that Catholicism would never accept women for ordination. The decision in London sealed the fate of a 22-year effort to undo King Henry's legacy and reunite the Anglican and Catholic churches. "The problem of the admission of women to the ministerial priesthood," declared a Vatican spokesman, "touches...
...women's movement, especially within Catholicism, is often linked to other emotional positions, including acceptance of birth control, abortion and homosexuality. It is by no means only men who view these developments with alarm. The movement's goal, warns traditionalist Donna Steichen, author of Ungodly Rage, is nothing less than "the overthrow of Christianity. It's not about advancing women in positions in the church. It's about a complete change in theology. Are we talking about a church founded by the Son of God made man? Or are we talking about simply a social gathering that we can rebuild...
...police cruiser called the fire department to report a three alarm fire, Reardon said. Within minutes, nine engine companies, five aerial ladder companies and one rescue company arrived on the scene...