Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five-alarm fire blazed through a Fresh Pond Parkway auto repair shop yesterday and threatened to consume a nearby gas station and an elementary school...
Although several five-alarm fires are normal for one year in Cambridge, Reardon said he cannot remember another this year...
Students face many choices in college from among the myriad of issues interwoven in the fabric of youth culture. While these issues are not faced by the majority of students, the minority who do experience them often raise alarm among roommates, family, faculty, and administration. In many ways the success of those responsible for their care should be measured by the extent to which the profile of these students can be transformed into a more healthy one. Certainly, their problems reveal the impact of modernity with its complex messages about uncertainty and doubt: the surviving elements from the drug counterculture...
...obvious answer is Alexander, which is why the Tennessean is still hanging on. Unlike Buchanan, who counts on the media's alarm at his success to provide plenty of airtime, Alexander desperately needs both some credible allies and some help on the ground. "They had no survival strategy," muttered a campaign consultant last week. "They thought they would win or lose outright by now. They didn't think three [third-place finishes] would keep them alive." When Alexander failed to place second in New Hampshire, he lost his shot at the big-name endorsements his aides had been touting...
...surveillance cameras in the bathrooms. Less personal then washroom attendents, but more cost-effective. One individual could sit at a bank of monitors and send out an alarm if he or she noticed any hoodlums hiding in our fair water closets...