Word: alarming
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...self criticism" for the United States. The paper blames the U.S. for Saturday's bombing attack, and attributes the low Chinese medal count to a litany of complaints, including what they claim to be small rooms and lousy food for the athletes, late buses, and even an errant fire alarm that rousted the Chinese swim team out of bed before dawn one day, interrupting an all important good night's sleep. "The U.S. got off easy," says TIME's Sally Donnelly. "On some things, such as organization, the Chinese are right, and have legitimate complaints. But the Chinese also expected...
Despite the false alarm, Mottola said in an interview that citizens should remain on heightened alert...
...second false alarm of the weekend was much less dramatic...
...growing demand for foreign cars, toys and games, creating the largest trade imbalance in eight years. TIME Washington correspondent Lewis Simons reports that the trend toward a vast trade disparity with China bodes poorly for the U.S. economy: "This shift from Japan to China is a warning, an alarm bell. The potential that China will be a source of cheap exports and lost American jobs far surpasses that potential from Japan." Japan's economy has increasingly matured, Simons says, and is not nearly the economic threat that China is becoming, given its large population of 1.2 billion people. "China...
...alarm is going off, or so it seems. Every few seconds a piercing honk pushes past the eardrums of those in attendance and enters their brain. This is done on purpose so that the men and women on the Baylor University track team have a better sense of their pacing...