Word: alarmingly
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...alarm system--which malfunctioned repeatedly last weekend, rivaling the bells of Memorial Church as a source of early-morning angst--was fixed on Friday afternoon, according to Danny K. Wong, manager of electrical engineering and utilities...
That tally must have gone off like an alarm at 6:00 a.m. for the Crimson...
...second alarm forced students out again. Four alarms later, at 2 p.m. students said they had learned to live with the noise...
Tiffany R. Beechy '99 sat in the courtyard reading as the 2:45 p.m. alarm rang. Shawn R. Feeny '99 blue notebook in hand, wore earplugs. Others packed their books and headed to the libraries...
Such forebodings could reshape the national debate over Medicare just as the House G.O.P. plan comes before the Ways and Means Committee for a critical vote this week. While approval there seems certain, the low-level alarm building outside Washington could force Republicans to rethink the plan and decide to pare back Medicare outlays by far less than $270 billion. Rising qualms among voters could also lead the Senate, whose Finance Committee passed a companion Medicare measure in September, to scale back provisions of the bill when it reaches the Senate floor...