Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington-kibitzers round the world kept up a drumfire of advice, exhortation and complaint (see cartoon). Keenly aware that the only bargaining counter which the U.S. had to offer was a change in the status of the offshore islands, Chinese Nationalist leaders regarded the Warsaw talks with undisguised alarm and despondency. In Taipei Nationalist Premier Chen Cheng implicitly warned the U.S. that his country would not be a party to any such bargain. Said Chen: "We will defend Quemoy, Matsu and all the other islands in our hands to the very last...
Some economists argue that these figures give no cause for alarm because in past recessions, re-employment always lagged behind general recovery. On the first signs of pickup, employers cautiously first lengthened the factory work week-as they are doing now. Furthermore, recessions have always cut the need for workers. Productivity has risen as management searched out new ways to cut costs and workers hustled harder to hold their jobs. Therefore, workers have been hired only after recovery was well under...
...Alarm & Excursion. As the screw tightened, governments around the world registered concern. Overnight, Philippine President Carlos Garcia created a National Security Council that expressed support for the U.S. position on Formosa; but the President added that the Philippine Republic itself would go to war only "if the U.S. bases in the Philippines are attacked." Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker suggested that the U.N. take up the dispute-thereby playing into the hands of Peking, which has been fighting for years for acceptance into...
...Alarm & Despondency?" With such forthrightness in a tippy-toes, security-conscious situation, the Times within a year zoomed past its only rival, the stodgy, pro-government Cyprus Mail, in circulation and influence. To prove army inefficiency, Foley printed stories on how his reporters had bluffed their way past guards into top-secret areas. When stern former Governor Sir John Harding put out a law giving him the right to suspend any newspaper without cause, Foley sent 150 protest telegrams to editors and such political leaders as Churchill and Attlee. In retaliation, the government fined him for publishing news likely...
Desperate to put down the local alarm, authorities in Rio insisted that there was no danger in Brazil but plenty in the U.S. where hormone fattening is standard practice. Trouble with this argument: U.S. authorities have not turned up a single proven case of enough hormone getting through to have any detectable effect. Last week Director Jayme Lins de Almeida of the Brazilian government's Institute of Animal Biology announced that he was starting "rigorous official experiments" to find out who is right...