Word: alarmism
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...Public alarm at yet another outbreak of the killer bird flu virus is an example of a city disappointed by its leadership. The virus was supposed to have been wiped out after a 1997 mass slaughter of chickens. That claim has been disproved by two major outbreaks since then. With a third underway, the government's response only further undermined its credibility. "We can see that our surveillance system is working well," Ingrid Yeung, the acting deputy secretary for Health, Welfare and Food, told legislators last week-without explaining how mere detection would result in complete eradication...
Vaux’s segue comment, though perhaps both poorly phrased and poorly understood, is not the cause for concern that the Kuumba singers believe it is. I do not believe that this is a case of irresponsibly crying wolf, but rather a misunderstanding and false alarm. The Social Analysis 34 classroom is a forum for the science of language, not the politics of race...
Pointless Alarm...
...agreement would at least allow the 10 candidate countries to get in before negotiations with Turkey open. "The French were worried about facing the Turkish question at the same time they were getting their Parliament to ratify the new members," says a Brussels diplomat. The decision rang alarm bells in Britain, which wants faster action on Turkey and eyes the Franco-German alliance with concern. On the eve of the last European Council meeting in October, Chirac and Schröder worked out a deal that assured France's princely take of E.U. agricultural subsidies through 2006, causing a contretemps...
...passion for pigeons, Harley-Davidson motorbikes and two Dublin sisters by whom he fathered nine children. Cahill's gang arrived in Russborough House one night in May 1986; they cut a small pane of glass out of a French window, and entered the house to set off the alarm. They then retreated and hid in the bushes, until the gardaí - as Ireland's policemen are known - had come and gone, believing it was a false alarm. An hour later the thieves went back inside and took 18 paintings from the walls. Like Dugdale's, Cahill's Russborough House caper...