Word: alarmism
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...parents filed a $27 million lawsuit against her psychiatrists, as well as her house master and a dean of student life, for failing to take adequate precautions. (They had scheduled an appointment to see her the following day.) When a judge last year refused to throw out the suit, alarm bells went off in administrative offices across the country. "To hold a university liable for simply trying to help a student is extraordinary," says Nelson Roth, Cornell's deputy university counsel, explaining why the school joined six others in supporting M.I.T. in the case. Shin's death was a tragedy...
...than peruse another dry policy paper, Bush was more interested in a rambling 18-page polemic that, among other things, argued that U.S. policies do not comport with Christian values. It came from an unlikely correspondent: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose incendiary statements and nuclear ambitions have raised alarm around the world--and may yet draw the U.S. to the precipice...
...former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn's appointment by the international community to help lay the economic foundations of Palestinian statehood was an expression of optimism in the prospects for peace following Israel's withdrawal from Gaza last year, then his resignation last Sunday should sound an alarm. Trained as a banker rather than a diplomat, former World Bank chief Wolfensohn didn't mince words about his reasons for stepping down. He said the current U.S.-Israeli financial blockade of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority looks set to destroy the administrative institutions on which a two-state solution would...
Students’ ambiguity about the syndrome and its treatment has led to a proliferation of use and abuse on campus—but the alarm bells are not sounding. For the Ritalin Generation, "speed kills" sounds like an old wives’ tale, and a prescription slip for Adderall looks no different from a 7/11 energy drink receipt...
...proof, his book reproduces a dire report by France's police intelligence unit responsible for identifying and tracking extremists. The problem, security officials say, is the document de Villiers has brandished is bogus - containing errors and inaccuracies police intelligence agents would never make. Worse yet, they add, his false alarm may have ruined work of agents who are watching a few airport employees actually suspected of Islamist ties - and who may now go underground...