Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call! VanDyke and Bell quickly don their raincoats and shoes as Ford takes the message. Turns out to be a false alarm: the student meant to call the car escort. The raincoats and shoes come...
...Alarm over the Acre proposal, first aired in January, has been so strong that President George Bush reportedly asked Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita to clarify whether his government had any plans to finance the highway. Takeshita said Japan had yet to receive a request from Brazil for funding. As President Sarney's speech last week demonstrated, the proud Brazilians will not be easily deterred. Officials insist that the highway from Acre to Peru will be built in spite of the clamor it has aroused...
...that matter, the accident might have been avoided had the Coast Guard's radar been electronically linked to the harbor's vessel-traffic system so that an alarm would sound automatically if a tanker wandered out of its correct path. Such a state-of-the-art system is in operation in at least one foreign port. Says Curtis of the Oceanic Society: "This is not just a case of someone getting drunk. Because the industry did not take responsibility for state-of- the-art technology, the problem lies at its doorstep...
Many of the city's 100,000 residents viewed the universities with alarm and distrust, particularly as they began to expand and take over local neighborhoods...
...first alarm bell rang in February, when Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and National League President A. Bartlett Giamatti summoned Rose to New York City for a private conversation on a secret subject. Reporters who knew Rose guessed gambling. Last week Ueberroth acknowledged that his office was conducting an ongoing investigation into "serious allegations" after Ron Peters and Alan Statman, a saloon-keeping bookie and his lawyer, claimed they had been cooperating with the commissioner's office. They offered to expand on their testimony for a fee to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Both publications demurred. But the story began...