Word: alarmism
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They weren't the only stars rooting for Federer. At his home in California, Australian tennis legend Rod Laver, who won 11 Grand Slam titles in the 1960s, set his alarm for 5 a.m. to watch the match. Not far away in Los Angeles, Sampras rolled out of bed in time to catch Federer's winning shot, and then tell journalists that he believes that the Swiss player should now be considered the greatest ever. Woods was at home with his wife, "yelling at the TV, the whole deal...
From outside government, Ross watched these developments with increasing alarm. He became convinced that Obama could change the context of the relationship with Iran. An Obama presidency, he thought, could transform the Iranian image of America and "make it easier to explain your policies and get more of a hearing" from Tehran, Ross told me last July. "Iran's almost reflexive suspicion of the U.S. would be removed. That's not insignificant." (See pictures of Bush in the Middle East...
Although the pandemic alert is a formal sounding of the alarm for H1N1, it does not reflect any increase in the severity of illness. The alert criteria drawn up by the WHO specifically include transmissibility of a new virus but not severity, since it is difficult to gauge accurately the deadliness of a newly emerging infection in real time. "The declaration of a pandemic does not suggest that there has been any change in the behavior of the virus," said Dr. Thomas Frieden in his first press conference as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
...What few people understand is that a CIA station chief in every country in the world has the authority to send back to Washington and disseminate around the government what is essentially finished analysis. This happened in Iraq in mid-2003, when the CIA station in Baghdad sounded the alarm that the invasion was about to go very badly. When the White House and the Pentagon's civilian management read the Baghdad chief's conclusions, they raged, dismissing the analysis as "defeatist," even going so far as to accuse the chief of being a closet Democrat. The chief came home...
...call a pandemic a pandemic. The WHO is the only judge we have. By all means the WHO and government health departments - as well as the media - should be careful to disseminate all the information necessary for people to put a pandemic into context. But that includes sounding the alarm when the cold, hard data confirms...