Word: alarmism
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...Countering the critics, China's Premier Wen Jiabao insisted that Beijing "will ensure the freedom and the rights of the foreign news media and foreign financial-information agencies." But alarm bells are nonetheless sounding in foreign boardrooms. In the past few months, Beijing has issued several regulations and is drafting more that appear to be aimed at limiting the ability of overseas firms to do business in China. Last week, China's stock-market regulator temporarily banned investment by foreign brokerages in domestic securities firms, citing the need to allow the local industry to consolidate so that Chinese firms would...
...first few weeks, my roommate and I were fastidiously polite with one another. “Good morning, Roxanne.” “Good morning, April.” “Is my alarm clock too loud for you?” “I’m sorry, but would you mind doing your laundry? It’s starting to spill over onto the floor...
...October, the script had been edited: “If your alarm clock wakes me up one more time, I’ll break your arm.” “Do your laundry or Febreeze it, because it’s starting to smell...
...with legends without regard for their individuality; in the end, all the greats just get filed under "fun music." Aguilera doesn't know much about history, but she has a voice with the blasting power of a fire hose and the gumption to treat every song like a five-alarm blaze. She absolutely devours Makes Me Wanna Pray and Ain't No Other Man, a great big goofy love song that moves with such pace and brass that you can imagine taking two quick steps, thrusting out your chin and taking flight over its chorus...
...years ago a British Airways flight got a dual F-16 escort back to Schiphol after a bomb scare. That turned out to be a false alarm, but after the events of the last two weeks, no one is disposed to take any chances on airplanes...