Word: alarmism
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...when Khodorkovsky was arrested last week on tax evasion and other charges, following months of intimidation, alarm bells went off in Russia and around the world. Prosecutors froze a 44% stake in Yukos, the world's fourth largest oil company and the source of Khodorkovsky's wealth, estimated last year at $8 billion. Khodorkovsky denies any wrongdoing, and his lawyers say the charges are purely political...
...customers encountered during FM’s late-night stakeout were Cantabrigians who only left their Harvard Square apartment due to a fire alarm...
...professional and personal conversations, Marra had been hearing more and more complaints from soccer-and-ballet moms about their hectic, joyless lives, and she was having similar misgivings herself. With the backing of her boss, she convened a meeting of parents, clergy and community leaders. They shared their alarm over the growing numbers of elementary students wearing knee braces because of injured and overused limbs, the burnout among high school students who wanted no part of varsity athletics and the homework load that forced schoolkids of all ages to lug backpacks heavy with books. "We're creating a generation that...
...Lowell House, most students sleeping in on Sundays simply consider the bells an alarm clock without a snooze button...
...deepened late last week as the Polish zloty, wobbling with uncertainty over government fiscal policies, hit new lows against the euro (€1 equals 4.66 zlotys), squeezing imports and pushing up interest rates on euro loans. Meanwhile the country's budget deficit - a whopping 5.2% of GDP - is ringing alarm bells in Brussels as Poland prepares to join the E.U. next year, and the euro zone, possibly, in 2007. Leszek Miller's government is backing a tough new austerity package, cutting spending by €6.9 billion within four years. Among other things it will overhaul the pension system (Poland...