Word: alarmist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ethical thought about the living-to-living transplants divides into two general perspectives, two systems of thought that are in many ways as incompatible as Apple and IBM. On one side are the non-alarmist accommodationists. On the other side are the biotechnical Luddites...
There is no shortage of alarmist language to describe the fiscal vise that is crunching New York City. Disastrous, drastic, cataclysmic, catastrophic are some of the terms that Mayor David Dinkins, Governor Mario Cuomo and legions of curbstone commentators have used in recent weeks. The town that likes to think of itself as the capital of the universe is, in a word, broke. Within days there may be no money to pay its 243,000 employees, and on the horizon there is only more red ink and pain. In 1975 the city pulled itself up from a similar fate...
Without such help, Iraq cannot build an atomic bomb. Senators who have access to the latest intelligence briefings say that Bush's alarmist rhetoric on the subject "has no substance," according to reports in The Boston Globe. Furthermore, no steps have been taken to stop the sales of advanced weapons components--biological chemical and conventional--to other such dictators. These are not mere oversights. The Department of Commerce approves such sales as a matter of routine...
...hours by the end of high school -- more time than he will spend in class. This dismayingly passive experience crowds out other, more active endeavors: playing outdoors, being with friends, reading. Marie Winn, author of the 1977 book The Plug-In Drug, gave a memorable, if rather alarmist, description of the trancelike state TV induces: "The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth (if there are any). The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look...
...everybody appreciates Slesin's work. Despite having a reputation for evenhandedness, he is seen in some industry circles as a crusader. "He's not alarmist or inflammatory," admits Bruce Dickerson, executive director of the Center for Office Technology, an industry-sponsored clearinghouse for information about VDT safety. "But he does represent a constituency that is not in the mainstream of science. ((The government agencies concerned with worker safety)) certainly don't believe there are adverse health effects...