Word: alarmingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Workers within the Cambridge Savings Bank pulled a fire alarm at 2:42 p.m., alerting the Cambridge Fire Department dispatch center on Broadway St., according to fire officials...
...dollar house in cash, that he was putting large chunks of cash in the bank and that he was an officer with access to the blown Soviet cases. It also knew from the informant that his wife's family was not independently wealthy. Yet no flashing red lights and alarm bells went off in Langley...
...decided not to put her four-month-old son in the new irs day-care center. Even for herself, working in a federal office building suddenly seemed like a risky proposition. But as the morning went on, she managed to put those thoughts out of her mind. Then the alarm went...
...windowless basement office, she heard the abrupt clanging of the building's fire alarm and a message on the public-address system to evacuate. This was not a drill. "People were running everywhere," says Critney. "I wondered if this was connected to the Oklahoma bombing. All I could think of was my two sons. What would they do without their mother?" After she and her co-workers rushed out of the building, they learned that the emergency was not a fire but a bomb threat. That was when it occurred to Critney that she might not be any safer outside...
...right on [Ideas, April 10]. I seriously doubt that Howard wanted to dig too deep into the facts behind his sketchy anecdotes about regulatory mischief. He is working squarely in the tradition of other zealots who promulgate such tales to support their antigovernment agenda. Environmentalists have been sounding the alarm about such so-called horror stories for years, but tragically, these spurious accounts are being recycled into policymaking, and in some cases the falsehoods are retold even after the truth is known. Thank you for blowing...