Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...addition to improving the state of the Science Center by adding more space, Cushman said the fire alarm system in the whole of the facility was upgraded...
...physiology at the University of Oxford whose medical research has relied on animal tests, was among several scientists threatened with assassination several years ago. Crude devices intended to injure have been sent to his home and office. The violence of a tiny fraction of animal-rights campaigners has stirred alarm even among fellow activists, who say it diverts attention from the real debate...
...wrong...I had an argument with my blockmate yesterday about...what was it...I vividly remember...[long pause]. Well, the very last thing I was wrong about was that I would get up at 9:00 this morning, but that proved to be false. I changed my alarm about eight or nine times, so that’s the claim I made less than 12 hours ago that proved to be wrong...
...that the four participated in the May bombing. The CD also features a bone-chilling cell-phone call that two of the terrorists apparently made from a car as they launched their May attack. It lasts 7 min. 21 sec. and closes with bursts of gunfire, remote screams of alarm and shouts of "Allahu Akbar!" This is propaganda, and it's aimed at die-hard followers of bin Laden. Jacquard believes the group wants to provoke a bloody war between its core supporters and Saudi authorities--much like the conflict in Algeria that has claimed more than 100,000 lives...
...KaZaA, Dragonball, Tattoos, West Nile Virus, Britney Spears.” The Michael Jackson business is a sign, not a shift, of cultural trends. Still, with two years and a bit behind us, the return of popular news culture to its previous depths should alarm us, for the simple reason that politics has not followed suit...