Word: alarmism
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...1990s, announced that they had found common ground on the issue as well. The renewed search for a comprehensive health-care solution reflects a deeper tide of concern in corporate America over the debilitating costs of providing health insurance and pensions for employees. These concerns are accompanied by general alarm in the Party of Sanity over the fiscal irresponsibility of the Bush Administration, the continuing frustration over the war in Iraq, and the Administration's failure to lead instead of attempting to dominate an Alliance of Sanity in the world...
...control. He and co-organizer Midge Ure implored anyone who could to skip school or work to go to Edinburgh (70 km from the G-8 meeting) on July 6. A headline the next day in the Edinburgh Evening News read "URE GOING TO CAUSE CHAOS," echoing the alarm of local authorities, who may be unprepared for such an influx and forced to rent portable toilets from the Continent. Live 8 downplayed the call to march, but by then faced fresh criticism - that although Paul McCartney, U2, Madonna and other rock royalty are signed up, few black performers and only...
According to Harvard University Police Department Spokesman Steven G. Catalano, the alarm wasn't intentionally pulled, but rather was a result of a malfunction to the system...
...were taking the exam, all of a sudden we started hearing the fire alarm go off, and basically we were just like, "What the hell is going on?" said Jonathan D. Cho '07, one of 356 students registered in the class...
...said that even after they returned to their examination rooms in the Science Center, the alarm lights continued to flash...