Word: alarmism
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...Eliezer's proposals reflect mounting alarm in the Israeli public that tough military action has failed to stem the tide of terror attacks. Fourteen Israelis were killed in a 24-hour period over the weekend, despite Israel's reoccupation of most of the West Bank's urban areas. Although the Israeli military is looking to respond through measures punishing family members of suicide bombers, the Defense Minister's revival of the longstanding idea of Gaza as a test-bed for truces and peace agreements suggests that the dovish faction of the Israeli government (Ben-Eliezer heads the Labor Party...
...from the market. But other potentially dangerous products seem sure to crop up. Already, ephedrine?an amphetamine-like stimulant cited in 80 deaths in the U.S.?is reportedly gaining popularity as a diet drug in the region. "Humans have short memories," sighs Adachi, the Japanese doctor who sounded the alarm over pills containing N-nitroso fenfluramine. "So long as people insist on being thin, dangerous diet drugs will persist." In other words: as long as Asians are dying to be thin, there's a good chance some of them will do so trying to reach their goal...
Thanks to the Enron and WorldCom corporate accounting scandals, whistleblowing is enjoying a renaissance in the U.S. Both Cynthia Cooper, the internal auditor who sounded the alarm over WorldCom's $3.8 billion in bookkeeping shenanigans, and Sherron Watkins, who first voiced concerns about Enron's accounting tricks, have won acclaim as right-thinking individuals struggling against morally bankrupt business cultures...
...officer was sent to Straus Hall to investigate a fire alarm. The fire allegedly started when two male intruders burned a charcoal...
...Indeed, the arrest of 21 male relatives of Wednesday's Tel Aviv suicide bombers in order to exile them from the West Bank signaled Israel's despair - the move, yet to be legally approved by Israel's attorney general, would formalize the principle of collective punishment, and it raised alarm among Israeli human rights groups. But the fact that even dovish foreign minister Shimon Peres appeared to support the principle of exiling the families of bombers revealed the dearth of new ideas on how to deal with the relentless terror onslaught...