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Which brings me to my final reason for looking forward to this shindig--you. Weddings portrayed in fiction always quake with an undercurrent of grave apprehension. The right She is about to be confined to the wrong Him, or vice versa, and the air screams with alarm as the clergyman calls out for somebody, anybody, to declare why this marriage should not take place...
...sent to Clinton by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in early April, warning that "we have every reason to believe the Indian policy pronouncement connotes a giant step toward fully operationalizing nuclear policy." The State Department dismisses the letter as crying wolf and files it in the false-alarm drawer. By then, India's preparations are well under way. Scientists and engineers have been moving in small groups from their laboratories to the desert testing site in Rajasthan. They travel by rail, switching trains in mid-journey and using false names to throw any human spies off their trails. They...
...shipment. But a well-informed U.S. official tells TIME that word of the February deal was flashed to Washington from Africa and elsewhere. A participant in a Foggy Bottom meeting in early March says the completed shipment was described in detail at that session. But U.S. officials raised no alarm that the U.N. embargo had been violated...
...also shows me the three noise settings for the siren: The wail sounds more like an ambulance, the yelp is the usual police car noise, and the hi-lo sound just goes up and down and sounds like a car alarm...
...four of Leverett's tower elevators failed Monday's inspection by the Massachusetts Department of Public Safety, and the yellow warning stickers posted in each elevator have raised alarm among residents and visitors alike...