Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...global warming has been underwhelming so far, a fact that remains little changed despite the political agreement negotiated at the U.N. summit in Copenhagen in December. But at least one business leader, the British billionaire and founder of the Virgin Group Richard Branson, says he has heard the alarm from scientists and environmentalists about climate change, and believes that the world must not waste time shifting away from oil and other fossil fuels. (See the Copenhagen climate conference...
Surinder Singh, a chef who has worked at the restaurant on 52A Brattle St. for 15 years, had turned on a charcoal oven to preheat it for the day's service—as he does every day—when the charcoal ignited a fire that triggered the alarm, according to Jagdish Singh...
Cambridge Fire Department and Cambridge Police Department responded to the alarm at around 11:10 a.m., at which point Jagdish Singh had to discontinue service and close the restaurant...
...year-old son of a banker from Nigeria should have tripped every alarm in the global aviation-security system put in place after 9/11: He bought a $2,831 ticket for flights from Lagos to Amsterdam to Detroit and paid for it in cash. He left no contact information with the airline. He checked no bags. Seven months earlier, he had earned himself a spot on a security watch list in Britain after applying for a visa to attend a dubious English university. And when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab broke off contact with his family in October to join...
...informed, British officials said. But even without that clue, Abdulmutallab's recent stay in Yemen, combined with his father's warning and the fact that he paid cash for a one-way ticket and didn't check any luggage, should have been sufficient to set off alarm bells. Or at least a more thorough search before he climbed into seat 19A aboard Flight...