Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deafening," Kelsen recalled on Friday. "It ripped me out of bed. I turned on army radio and there was nothing special--there was music, and I thought it was a false alarm...
...parents try to force masks onto the petrified youngsters. Many people are shaking. Some pray. Most just wait and stare at the ceiling. I have my Walkman tuned to army radio and wait impatuently for an update. The all clear siren sounds 45 minutes later. It was a false alarm...
...Education official in charge of civil rights, announced a startling reinterpretation of existing federal anti-discrimination laws. College scholarships exclusively earmarked for minority students are illegal, he declared, and institutions that offer them may face a cutoff of federal funds. Colleges and universities around the country immediately set off alarm bells and sent the Administration scrambling to clarify a policy that Williams had apparently enunciated without consulting the White House...
CAPTION: Probably no individual has collected more information about extremely low-frequency fields -- or done more to sound the alarm about the dangers they may pose -- than Louis Slesin, editor of a newsletter called Microwave News. Here is his ranking of the worst hazards -- and some advice...
...social problem in America looked so easy and proved so hard to solve. Having at last cleared away the myths about homelessness, communities across the country are moving to embrace the programs that work -- tailor made, cost effective, time tested. -- A collision in Detroit raises alarm about on-the- ground safety at airports...