Word: alarming
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Hudnut said he hoped that the recent riots in Los Angeles would serve as an "alarm bell for America" and bring back a sense of ethical responsibility...
...days it is the one item in oversupply. According to a report by the Cherepovets Regional Scientific Methodological Center for the Study of Social Problems, 80% of the residents of the city, about 230 miles north of Moscow, are in a constant state of heightened irritability. The proportion experiencing alarm and depression is 70%; agitation and anxiety for no clear reason, 61%; a sense that life is meaningless, 42%. Thoughts of suicide have increased 20-fold. It might be called the "inside story" of reform...
...dance that preceded the fashion showcontinued after the show ended. Smoke machines setoff a fire alarm, forcing evacuation of thebuilding and bringing the evening to an earlyclose...
...Kenya's Maathai is facing trial on charges of publishing "a false rumor which is likely to alarm the public," namely that the Moi government was planning to hand over power to the military. Last month, during a protest by fasting mothers of political prisoners, she was tear-gassed and clubbed unconscious by police. In January more than 100 police officers swarmed her house in Nairobi and arrested her. A night in jail with no mattress or blankets so aggravated her rheumatism that she was hospitalized for several days after her release...
...have observed with growing alarm that namecalling is replacing academic debate and that your reporting of this and other trends is increasingly superficial and sensationalistic rather than respectable journalism...