Word: alarmism
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...after the Institute crisis, a company plant in South Charleston, W. Va., leaked about 4,000 lbs of an ontoxic mixture used to make hydraulic brake fluid.) The company's beleaguered chairman, Warren Anderson, traveled to West Virginia, where he announced that in the future Union Carbide would sound alarm swarning nearby residents at the first sign of any trouble. "We'd rather be accused of crying wolf," he said, "than be accused of not doing the proper thing at the proper time...
...familiar answer: "Uncontrollable." The craft was down to 9,850 ft. By 6:49 p.m., the 747 had dropped to 7,880 ft., and now came the first clear sound of fear from the cockpit. "Waaah!" a crew member shouted into the microphone, an exclamation of surprise and alarm in Japanese. Mysteriously, the aircraft began climbing again, to 9,160 ft. Captain Takahama was apparently fighting for altitude. By 6:54 p.m. the 747 had reached 11,400 ft. and was 55 miles northwest of Haneda. Advised of this location, a crewman responded, "Roger." It was to be the last...
...three latest cases have increased the sense of alarm in Washington that the U.S. intelligence community has been lax in detecting moles within its midst. Yet many saw the arrests as the fruits of an intensive crackdown. "I think it was a good week," FBI Director William Webster said in an interview with TIME. "It shows that those who want to betray have a substantial risk on their hands of being detected and prosecuted and given severe sentences." In his weekly radio address on Saturday, President Reagan declared, "We will not hesitate to root out and prosecute the spies...
...being aimed at it, nuclear-plant security in the U.S. is superior in some ways to that of other countries. Earlier this year the British government reported that from April 2003 to April 2004, nuclear-plant security was compromised more than 40 times; guards failed to answer an intruder alarm during a burglary, for instance. In 2003 Greenpeace volunteers breached the control building of a plant and scaled the reactor dome. Before 9/11, most plant guards were unarmed, but in April the government established the Civil Nuclear Constabulary to supply armed guards. So far, however, it consists of only...
...meetings became instead intense, intelligent discussions of how to fix poor management at the University. Seeing the administration “behind the scenes” this spring has reaffirmed my faith in the genuine concern of professors for the education Harvard provides—and increased my grave alarm about the current top leadership of Mass. Hall and University Hall...