Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four alarm fire earlier this week severely damaged Savenor's Supermarket, the Kirkland Street shop famous for drawing eminent chefs as customers and stocking an exotic selection of foods...
There was a similar pattern of uncertainty in judgments about Alar, radon and even some forms of PCBs and asbestos. Citing government studies, environmentalists sounded the alarm about toxicity and cancer. The public fretted. Officials issued warnings and regulations. But then skeptical scientists re-evaluated the threat and began to argue that the risks had been exaggerated. After this series of debates, people are wondering if they have been unduly frightened by overzealous, if well-meaning, regulators...
...funny--most of us heard the alarm, butthose things are always blaring around here, so wemade nothing of it," said a resident...
...scoreboard in the Savoie but in the larger way in which 15 years of determination can turn on a single moment. Look away from the slope for an instant, touch the side of the run for a second, and 10,000 hours of practice are gone. The athletes carry alarm clocks -- or time bombs -- in their heads and measure their lives in heartbeats (193 a minute for a biathlete). "Luge is all feeling," explained Duncan Kennedy, an American luger who won by placing 10th (higher, at the time, than any U.S. luger in history). "You can have a 'great...
Athletic budgets. Reading lists. Pronouns in textbooks. All sorts of things have changed since 1972, when Congress outlawed sex discrimination in federally aided schools. But so far, charges the American Association of University Women (A.A.U.W.), reforms have only tinkered with the gender gap. The organization issued a cry of alarm last week, citing "compelling evidence that girls are not receiving the same quality, or even quantity, of education as their brothers." That conclusion was contained in a report compiled by specialists at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women that synthesized hundreds of studies of girl students from preschool...