Word: alarmist
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...grim as it may sound, perhaps it is time to start door-dropping crime reports and warnings or adding the information to our dining hall table-tents or to the "fas" log-in text. Some may see this as alarmist, and the administration might quiver at the thought of all that negative publicity. But the unacceptable alternative is to let students wander blithely through areas where violent crimes have repeatedly occured...
Concern over this trend may be alarmist, but with heady modern science one cannot be too careful. One scientist said it was high time that history was taken away from the historians. History is guesswork, but science will set us free...
Describing the situation as "non-alarmist," Rudenstine immediately announced the threat at Sanders Theatre and presented a modified program for the conference since three morning panels were scheduled to take place in the Science Center...
Needlessly alarmist? As it happened, no planes came hurtling down, none collided in midair, no one was hurt. So Pittsburgh's mishap barely stirred notice. But such technological glitches are fast becoming routine in the nation's air-traffic-control system. By the National Transportation Safety Board's reckoning, anti- quated tracking equipment freezes up, shuts down or fizzles out all too often. "There is not one day that goes by without our losing radar or radio communication with an aircraft," says Joseph Fruscella, president of NATCA's eastern region. "It compromises safety on a regular basis...
...generation's future crime patterns is, of course, risky, especially when outside factors (Will crack use be up or down? Will gun laws be tightened?) remain unpredictable. Michael Tonry, a professor of law and public policy at the University of Minnesota, argues that the demographic doomsayers are unduly alarmist. "There will be a slightly larger number of people relative to the overall population who are at high risk for doing bad things, so that's going to have some effect," he concedes. "But it's not going to be an apocalyptic effect." Norval Morris, professor of law and criminology...