Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...alarm bell went off at 9 a.m. on Oct. 15, 2003. That was the moment when China's Shenzhou V spacecraft lifted off the pad carrying Yang Liwei, a 38-year-old lieutenant colonel and former fighter pilot in the People's Liberation Army. Although his flight was only 21 hours long, Yang's accomplishment triggered a historic outpouring of national pride, with China's state media portraying the country's first manned space shot as a triumph of native science, technology and collective will. Soon after the success of Shenzhou V, China upped the ante, announcing plans to launch...
...Hurricane Katrina, some of the deaths in 1918 were the government's responsibility. Surgeon General Rupert Blue was his day's Mike Brown. Despite months of indications that the disease would erupt, Blue made no preparations. When the flu hit, he told the nation, "There is no cause for alarm...
...Alarm was needed. Victims could die in 24 hours. Symptoms included bleeding from the nose, mouth, ears and eyes. Some people turned so dark blue from lack of oxygen that an Army physician noted that "it is hard to distinguish the coloured men from the white...
...courtroom and into crime scenes. But it may be that viewers will not care. It's a big, spooky country, and Bruckheimer knows far better than I how many people out there are ready to put the kids to bed; flip on the baby monitor, motion-sensitive lights and alarm system; and settle down in front of the widescreen for a nice, safe scare...
...tests on samples taken from two of the most recent human victims of bird flu show no cause for immediate alarm. "There are no obvious changes in the virus that we tested," says Dr. Guan Yi, an avian-flu expert at the University of Hong Kong who has helped sound the pandemic alarm. For now, he says, there's "nothing new. Nothing to worry about." The viral genes are still the same avian-flu genes that haven't figured out how to spread easily from one person to another...