Word: alarmingly
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...openers, "we risk losing the standard of living that we have taken for granted for so many years." But Americans will make the sacrifices required -- most prominently, paying $150 billion or so in new or increased taxes over the next four years -- because they never fail to heed "alarm bells in the night...
...last week Bill Clinton rang those alarm bells, playing a thunderous overture to his address to Congress this week. He will probably need every decibel. The economic plan he outlines this week is stunning both in size -- some aides estimate it may shift as much as $400 billion in taxes and spending over the next four years -- and scope. Its scores of proposals cover items as small as layoffs and lesser perks for the White House staff, calculated to save a penny-ante $10 million a year, and as large as new energy taxes that could raise as much...
...energy tax. But the President backed away from hints that he might seek a one-year freeze on Social Security cost of living adjustments, after trial balloons to that effect caused a predictable uproar among the elderly and their friends in Congress. Clinton called on Americans to hear the "alarm bells in the night" about the economy. But as the COLA episode suggested, some Americans are bound to find cause for alarm in his solutions. (See Cover Stories beginning on page...
...advisers were working alongside them in their New York City offices, suggesting ideas for Coke Classic. Coca-Cola had created an uneasy creative alliance in search of better ideas. They had also created a mild panic in the advertising business, where many executives viewed CAA's new role with alarm. Rumors flew that CAA might even try to capture the Diet Coke account handled by the prominent Lintas agency...
...Your alarm goes off, since when you went to bed the night before you intended to outline a chapter before your morning classes. Wake up. Reflect on fact that your best friend has won a Rhodes to study at Oxford for two years, your roommate has been accepted to grad school at Dartmouth, your high school boyfriend just signed with Morgan Stanley, and you can't even commit to spring break plans. Moan in despair. Snooze...