Word: alarming
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Amid the cries of alarm, some experts caution against equating the banking industry's problems with the thrift disaster. Overall, banks in the U.S. earned $26 billion last year, while S&Ls lost more than $19 billion. "I disagree strongly with the notion that the problem in the banking industry resembles the early stage of the S&L debacle," says Thomas McCandless, who follows the industry for Goldman, Sachs. "The regulatory environment has been much more rigorous than the loosey-goosey kind of overview that occurred in the S&L industry...
...week, the U.S. sailors are likely to be more impressed by the natural beauty of the surroundings than by the Soviet naval power on display in the harbor. There at her moorings is the Minsk, a helicopter carrier of a class that sent the Pentagon into a frenzy of alarm in the 1970s. It is about half the size of the U.S. flattops on duty in the gulf. Nearby are a number of formidable-looking destroyers and guided-missile cruisers, but they are outnumbered by a long row of decrepit submarines literally rusting away at dockside and good for little...
This September's first-year faces are a little more diverse, and the boxes, topped with computers and CD players, just a little different. No longer containing phonographs and wind-up alarm clocks, these boxes hide high-cost trinkets--the techno-toys of college...
When this seemingly innocuous phrase appeared in Wilson's 1975 book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, it set off alarm bells as surely as ant pheromones trigger the defense mechanisms of a threatened colony. Critics scrambled out of the corners of the academy to attack Wilson's ideas as dangerously deterministic. To suggest, as he did, that human actions were more hard-wired than generally believed threatened to upset the balance of nurture so carefully guarded by those who held that environment, not heredity, shaped behavior...
...first to sound a note of alarm was Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. In a speech last September he said, "For all its risks and uncertainties, the cold war was characterized by a remarkably stable and predictable set of relationships among the great powers." The changes in the East, he warned, may prove "destabilizing...