Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Iraqi Governing Council to privatize all of Iraq's economy except for the oil industry - the idea that decisions that will have a profound impact on Iraq's future are being taken by an occupation authority and a body of Iraqis of its own choosing will further alarm many UN member states...
...fait accompli, even though News Corp. and BSkyB officials were saying nothing for the record. Regardless of where the information came from, Murdoch's organization got a taste of investors' reaction to the idea of putting James in charge. Judging from last week, there's little cause for alarm. On Tuesday, the day the story broke, BSkyB stock fell only 2%, to $10, though the overall market rose that day. By the end of the week BSkyB's share price was back exactly where it closed on Monday before the news hit. Yet some shareholders are certainly scratching their heads...
...HUPD officers were dispatched to Au Bon Pain on Mass Ave. on a report of a person who had set off a fire alarm. Officers arrested John Blanchard, 67, of Boston for tampering with a fire call...
Richardson’s Harvard career began at 9:10 a.m., after just one run-in with his alarm clock’s snooze button. He stopped off for a quick Annenberg breakfast before making his way to Science Center D for Quantitative Reasoning 28, “The Magic of Numbers”—the humanities or social science specialists’ perennial favorite...
...hotel bathrobe and floppy slippers, he looks like a sad samurai in forced retirement. The next morning, he is startled out of sleep by the bedroom drapes briskly, noisily, automatically opening to reveal slashes of sunlight--that's his wake-up call. Tokyo has another alarm clock in store for Bob. He needs the jolt of friendship, and he finds it in Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a young wife who is as restless as Bob is. When she asks how long he's staying in Tokyo, he replies like a lounge singer...