Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showing that traces of five commonly used agricultural weed killers are seeping through soil and streams and into the drinking water of some 14 million Americans, mostly in the Midwest. The poisons pose slightly increased cancer risks. The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged there was cause for "concern" but not "alarm...
Suddenly, she is interrupted by a loud, metallic alarm and flashing lights. Cabot is closing, and more than 30 students are forced out to continue their studying elsewhere...
...film's essential episode, the disappearance of the petulant Anna (Lea Massari), occurs within the first hour. A luxury yacht's cargo of listless passengers disembarks on a rocky, semi-deserted island. Anna, moody, beautiful and brown-haired, has recently sent a fake alarm through the party when she cries "shark" in pretend. This act of immature attention-getting sets the scene of her disappearance, which will ultimately become the only certainty in the film, in a context of folly and childish insignificance...
...trusted Rich that pulling a fire alarm was not an offense deserving of being plastered all over the newspapers," Roth said. "She was not aware it was a misdemeanor...
About 15 minutes later, the engine left the station on an alarm, and Altman snapped the picture, he said...