Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last week warning U.S. tourists to beware of street protests. "I have the duty to underline the danger of the political left," said Berlusconi, "which wants to snuff out our opinions by using violence." As Pierluigi Battista, a columnist for Corriere della Sera, summed up the campaign on Friday: "Alarm, hysteria and a climate of the 'final showdown' is everywhere...
...James Hansen, NASA's chief climate scientist, made headlines when he accused the administration of muzzling him when he tried to speak out about global warming. Hansen, director of the space agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was one of the earliest researchers to sound the climate change alarm. He alleges that White House appointees in NASA limited his access to the press and ordered him to remove web postingss that contradicted the President's positions. The White House took a PR bruising when the charges went public and Hansen's profile has since been higher than ever...
Official housing assignments were delivered in the morning, after a prank e-mail sent out to all freshmen caused false alarm the night before. The e-mail assigned students to the Quad or overflow housing, asking that they direct complaints to the “housing office”—and listed the phone number for The Crimson newsroom...
...This week, several world leaders - including those with peacekeeping troops in Afghanistan - have voiced alarm about the trial. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice phoned Karzai on Thursday, urging a "favorable resolution" to the case...
...Sandman argues that it?s hard to rouse folks from their usual day-to-day routine to prepare for a new threat without also triggering alarm. Besides, a little bit of panic helps folks prepare emotionally for what the future may hold. It?s a necessary kind of "adjustment reaction," he says, that allows folks to think about what they can and cannot do, so that when the crisis comes they don?t just dissolve into despair and inaction...