Word: alarmist
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They gathered not far from where Paul Revere sounded his timely warning against invaders, and in many ways, their message was similar and every bit as alarmist. Meeting two weeks ago in Cambridge, Mass., for a two-day Harvard University conference on U.S. competitiveness, some 150 businessmen, academics and Congressmen took a generally gloomy view of the U.S.'s business prowess. The nation, they argued, is losing the international trade war; foreign competitors are producing better goods at lower costs. America now stands on the verge of becoming a second-rate economic power...
...they are expected to take stronger action backing U.S. policies on the hostages and Afghanistan than they had planned at first. Some of Schmidt's aides admit that the original Western European assessment playing down the significance of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was wrong; the more alarmist American view, they now agree, was closer to reality...
...some of his Texas colleagues reportedly expressed the alarmist view to the State Department that the Paitilla Center lacked the equipment and support personnel needed for the spleen operation. Several of the doctors are said to have advised removal of the Shah to a large U.S. medical center, or at least to Gorgas Hospital, a well-equipped American military hospital in the former Canal Zone. On his flight to Panama, Jordan and Cutler were accompanied by an as yet unnamed physician, selected by the White House. Nonetheless, an Administration spokesman insisted at week's end that there were...
Instead of dismissing Solzhenitsyn again as a paranoid alarmist, we Americans must open our eyes, harden our bodies and brace ourselves for confrontation...
Looking back, Peterson admits his alarmist views "were never justified." Most professors concur, but nevertheless believe if they had it to do over, they would have moved with the same caution. The Faculty members at the time recoiled from the dangers of what Peterson calls a "precipitous merger," contending that Harvard was not "prepared" for the allegedly grandiose reversals in University tides...