Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...removing the hanger, Nieman set off fire alarms in Hollis and Stoughton Halls. Both were completely evacuated, but Stoughton residents were allowed back in their rooms about 10 minutes after the 7:30 p.m. alarm...
...alarm] on the third floor was the catalyst," Beck said. "The rest followed, one after the other...
Soon after the alarm, harried College officials announced plans to give all Hollis South students alternative lodgings in the luxurious Sheraton Commander Hotel...
...figured it was a fire alarm," said Sinju K. Swami '98. "Then we saw the water pouring down the stairwells, and we went outside...
...alarm went off with Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring and has been sounding ever since. We live, environmentalists warn, in a world laced with dangerous chemicals, from powerful pesticides to toxic industrial wastes like dioxin and PCBs. Despite periodic waves of public concern and efforts at government regulation (the 1972 banning of DDT in the U.S., for example), the chemicals are still found in small but measurable amounts in air, water, soil -- and our own tissues. Many scientists have long argued that even tiny doses of pollutants can cause cancer in humans, but the contention is hotly disputed...