Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already produced its first clear-cut winner: Syrian President Hafez Assad. By crushing Aoun's 11- month rebellion once and for all, Assad has expanded his already considerable influence over his western neighbor. Under ordinary circumstances, an extension of Syrian hegemony in Lebanon would have provoked alarm in several foreign capitals, especially Washington and Jerusalem. But by strongly supporting the U.S.-led alliance against Saddam Hussein, Assad has won a wide berth for exercising his might. While denying speculation that Washington acquiesced to Syria's raid on Aoun's forces, all the U.S. State Department could say was that...
Several residents said they did not take the alarm seriously at first since Adams has been the scene of several false alarms during the past two weeks...
James J. Marino '91 said he "thought [the alarm] was a fluke." until he went out his suite's front door and saw the smoke. He then had to escape through a fire door. "It was easy to tell it was no joke," he said...
Some residents who believed the alarm was a fake did not leave their rooms at first, students said. Others near the fire said that the thick smoke and loud alarms disoriented them...
...made by Yemen on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization and backed by the seven other nonaligned Council members. The Yemeni faction had wanted the resolution to blast only Israel but, faced with the threat of a U.S. veto, the group relented in the end. The approved draft "expresses alarm" at the violence in general, thus indirectly criticizing the rock-throwing Palestinians, and "condemns especially" the behavior of the Israeli security forces...