Word: alarmism
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Eliot House is also undergoing extensive internal renovations, as are Kirkland, Adams, and Dunster Houses. If all goes as planned, these Houses will have new showers, water-saving toilets, and high-efficiency lighting by September 8. Kirkland House will also have fire alarm and sprinkler upgrades...
...Confederates ordered the more than three-hundred men aboard the whaling vessels-each carried a crew of up to thirty-five-to surrender and come aboard the Shenandoah as prisoners of war. Failing that, they could go down with their vessels, all of which the Confederates threatened to destroy. Alarm rippled across the decks of the whalers. Officers who had assembled for the auction on the Brunswick's decks rushed back to their own vessels and began ordering their crews to weigh anchor and prepare to sail. Perhaps, they reasoned, if they could reach the nearby Siberian coast, they would...
...agencies had to apply for funding allocation on a case-by-case basis, a bureaucratic process that often slowed the delivery of vital aid until starving kids filled television screens. (Benn likens it to a fire service forced to pass around a hat before responding to an alarm.) From this year, the cerf can be accessed within three days, most of the money is to be given as grants and not loans, and the total pot, to be replenished regularly, should grow tenfold to $500 million...
...urgently called to Lascaux in August 2001 by France's Research Laboratory for Historical Monuments (LRMH). "It was as if it had snowed in the cave. Everything was covered in white," she says. Two of the cave's caretakers, Bruno Desplat and Sandrine van Solinge, had raised the alarm when they discovered that white filaments, first spotted in isolated parts of the cave months before, had spread over much of the interior in a matter of days. Desplat, who lives next to Lascaux and has devoted more than 15 years to its care, says that when he saw the luxuriant...
...campus. But it’s not simply oversight that prompts administration neglect of these issues. It’s fear, mostly of alumni. The men who run this University think those who went there in years past and who now provide its financial support will react with alarm should they become enlightened and allow too many female professors, or give too much support to the portion of their students that are gay, or end their policy of supporting apartheid through investments. In a sense, then, alumni are already putting on pressure, and Harvard is already conforming to what...