Word: alarmism
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...officer en route to an alarm discovered two individuals in the alley behind Apley Court. After a field interview, the individuals were identified, and a small amount of what is thought to be marijuana was confiscated. The officer issued a trespass warning and sent the individuals on their...
...Officers and the Cambridge Fire Department (CFD) were dispatched to Adams House on a report of a fire alarm. A bulletin board was on fire, but extinguished prior to CFD’s arrival. CFD will be investigating possible arson...
...asked for help with security and, in conjunction with its NATO partners, agreed on a cooperative strategy that is the obverse of the Powell doctrine. The plan, says a Western official, is to scare off terrorists with an overwhelming display of resources: "You want to put enough whistles and alarm bells on the house of the Olympics that if some [terrorist] looks at it, he's going to say it's too hard...
...West Coast, however, my cell phone became more useful as an alarm clock than a telecommunication device. It would not pick up a signal for days, but did occasionally storm back to life, buzzing and beeping, as it caught up with a barrage of missed calls and text messages. My contingency plan was fatally flawed—my phone card had expired (with all my credits!) months before I returned home...
Rescue Me may sound disrespectful on paper, but really it's the opposite; it respects the characters enough not to patronize them or soft-pedal their sarcasm, flaws and political incorrectness. At the firehouse, for instance, well-meaning bureaucrats have installed a fire alarm with the automated voice of a woman. "That voice," Lou says with a sneer, "is the closest thing I'm ever gonna come to working with a broad." When the house gets assigned a rookie named Mike, the veterans complain that there are already too many Mikes in the department--Mike the Mick, Guinea Mike, Mike...