Word: alarmism
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...21st century is comparable, Jespersen writes, to the twin scourges of the past century, Nazism and communism - other forms of "totalitarianism." Left-wing intellectuals across Europe are increasingly split over the perceived danger posed by fundamentalist Islam, with some embracing multicultural integration while others loudly raise the alarm over the perceived threat to liberal values. Together with xenophobic parties of the right, like Italy's Northern League, which oppose immigration for completely different reasons having to do with jobs and race, a strange alliance is taking shape. The Dutch populist Pim Fortuyn, who was murdered in 2002, was openly...
...were worried that she was going to drop the class, but when we followed her, we discovered she had only gone to drop a brown Hindenburg in the Science Center bathroom. Every rose has its thorn, and some thorns stink so bad we had to pull the fire alarm. Oh, the humanity. Our search for the perfect woman continued in Historical Study B-24: “Utopia in the Age of the Scientific Revolution.” Even though the course isn’t offered this semester, sitting in the empty-room was a character building experience. However...
...Countering the critics, China's Premier Wen Jiabao insisted that Beijing "will ensure the freedom and the rights of the foreign news media and foreign financial-information agencies." But alarm bells are nonetheless sounding in foreign boardrooms. In the past few months, Beijing has issued several regulations and is drafting more that appear to be aimed at limiting the ability of overseas firms to do business in China. Last week, China's stock-market regulator temporarily banned investment by foreign brokerages in domestic securities firms, citing the need to allow the local industry to consolidate so that Chinese firms would...
...first few weeks, my roommate and I were fastidiously polite with one another. “Good morning, Roxanne.” “Good morning, April.” “Is my alarm clock too loud for you?” “I’m sorry, but would you mind doing your laundry? It’s starting to spill over onto the floor...
...October, the script had been edited: “If your alarm clock wakes me up one more time, I’ll break your arm.” “Do your laundry or Febreeze it, because it’s starting to smell...