Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...countries had harbored scarcely concealed hopes that they would soon be rid of Bush. As the ballots came in, they recognized that they had miscalculated?badly. South Korea's Blue House, for one, called an emergency meeting of its National Security Council after the outcome became clear. Why the alarm? Because Pyongyang, Beijing and Seoul are all co-dependents in that great ongoing geostrategic A.A. meeting known as the "North Korean nuclear crisis." Dubya, meanwhile, is a confirmed purveyor of The Cure...
Yang Hua's passport is stamped with visas that would alarm immigration clerks around the world. He showed up in Indonesia two days after the Bali disco bombing in 2002. He has logged trips on a moment's notice to Iran, Yemen and Qatar as well as the U.S., Australia, Canada, England and Brazil. And Yang doesn't try to hide the substances contained in little glass vials that he brings home from his travels. In fact, they're lined up on the windowsill of his Beijing office, affixed with labels like SAUDI SWEET. Yang, it turns out, works...
Lesley’s campus, unlike Harvard’s, has no blue-light emergency call boxes. But escort services, similar to the Harvard University Campus Escort Program, are available to Lesley students, as are personal alarm whistles...
...true with most major tragedies in life, it takes more than a couple of weeks to get rid of the blues. Each day is a struggle. When the alarm rings in the morning, it’s suddenly difficult to yank yourself out of bed as an underlying sense of pain and loss grabs at your heart and makes that dreamy delirium you just left seem oh-so-inviting. After the tragedy that befell us on Nov. 2, I’ve barely been able...
...would be like shooting a horse in order to kill the fly on its back. Moreover, in the course of the battle, Arab TV channels showed Americans, rather than Iraqis in charge on the ground, for example when an Iraqi Red Crescent relief convoy was turned away - to the alarm even of some Iraqi national guard commanders. Nor will the government's case be helped by the spectacle of U.S. troops arresting leading Sunni clerics and politicians sympathetic to the insurgency in Baghdad, or the widely televised image of a Marine apparently shooting dead an unarmed insurgent inside a mosque...