Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thumbs Down. On the other hand, economists point out that the indicators have not missed calling a single downturn since World War II. Some sound the alarm ten to twelve months ahead, while others point up short-term trends over three to six months. In the past, whenever the indicators have been misleading, it has often been the long-term leaders that pointed down while the short leaders continued to show strength. Last week both long and short leaders were weak. On this basis, such highly respected economists as Vice President Beryl Sprinkel of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings...
...reputation not only as a competent marine biologist but as a graceful writer. Miss Carson's deadly white powder is not radioactive fallout, as many readers will at first assume. The villains in Silent Spring are chemical pesticides, against which Miss Carson has taken up her pen in alarm and anger, putting literary skill second to the task of frightening and arousing her readers. Published this week, the book has already raised a swirl of controversy about the danger to man and wildlife of those modern chemical compounds that have vastly increased agricultural production, banished some diseases, and kept...
There was, perhaps, an undermanned stockade a mile or so away. If the alarm was given soon enough, he could crouch there in relative safety and watch his homestead burn. If there was no alarm-the usual case-he would almost certainly be butchered or held captive for the squaws to torture. Occasionally a captive would be ransomed or adopted, but young children were never spared; they were too weak to stand a long march to an Indian village, and were customarily brained against trees. Both sides took scalps as a matter of course, but on the whole the Indians...
According to Frondel, "the measures are designed to obviate a recurrence of anything like the $50,000 burglary." He declined to describe specific features of the new security system, but said that "some type of alarm system will be installed, and safe-type cases will be provided for very valuable objects...
...alarm was justified but belated. All through August, St. Pete had recorded a gradual increase in the number of cases of St. Louis encephalitis,- an inflammation of the brain caused by a virus that is carried by mosquitoes. City authorities tried to suppress the news, and were helped by the fact that St. Louis encephalitis, or SLE, is hard to diagnose with certainty. But in late August the number of cases increased until last week there were at least 164 (with 50 proved by laboratory tests) and 13 deaths. Elsewhere in Florida 20 more cases were reported, and a Maryland...