Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks to poring over secret lists of targets in Iraq, according to Pentagon officials. The strikes, by Navy and Air Force jets as well as by cruise missiles, would be at the suspected weapons facilities Saddam has tried to hide from U.N. inspectors. Fighter pilots have an internal alarm clock that puts them more on edge when they sense combat is near, and the flyers on the Nimitz, watching CNN day and night, have that feeling...
...scary sense that something actually could happen," he says. "Now there's a much better chance that something will happen, so guys are going into the box with that mind-set." It was the threat to the U-2 spy plane that was setting off the pilots' internal alarm bells. They knew that if Saddam Hussein even tried to fire at a U-2, the Nimitz air warriors would be launched in reprisal. When a U-2 flew early last week, the pilots "spooled up," sensing that the call might come quickly. Now, with more U-2 flights planned...
...leaders have been eyeing both countries with growing alarm. In a letter to his Japanese counterpart two weeks ago, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin reportedly urged Tokyo to move swiftly to regenerate the Japanese economy and warned against flooding the U.S. with exports as a way to solve Japanese problems. And with concerns rising in Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testified last week that Asia's problems, while not yet "serious threats" to the U.S. economy, could become so if they are not defused properly. To do that, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers was to meet with Japanese officials...
...March 18, 1990, two men dressed as Boston police officers talked their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, handcuffed and bound with duct tape two feeble guards, disarmed the even feebler alarm system and spent the next 81 minutes looting the place. They left with a Vermeer, three works by Rembrandt, five by Degas--altogether, pieces valued at $300 million...
Over the years in which we have been monitoring the Promise Keepers, we have spoken to thousands of people across the U.S., including wives of its members who are terribly concerned about this dangerous movement. NOW should be commended for doing its duty and raising the alarm about a well-financed national organization of angry white males who promise they will get into line as long as women agree to submit to them. Promise Keeper members are not Boy Scouts but Fundamentalist wolves in sheep's clothing. LEE COKORINOS, Editor Promise Keepers Watch Center for Democracy Studies New York City...