Word: alarmist
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...cancer-stricken women in age and other characteristics) had taken them. They reanalyzed their data to rule out hypertension itself as a cause or accelerator of breast cancer and also found no association with the alternative hypertension drugs. Cautious to a degree and determined not to be alarmist, the Boston group invited eminent epidemiologists in England and Finland to run a similar check. Their results were essentially the same...
...decade American journalism has been the target as well as the generator of criticism. It has been accused of being first too complacent and then too alarmist about Viet Nam, of being insufficiently sensitive and too gullible concerning the counterculture of the '60s, of being first casual and then over-zealous about Watergate. Such indictments have come from within and without the craft, often at a pitch intended to shatter glass...
...eyes of many, the fate of the nation as a whole) also appears rather sad at this point. But the trouble does not lie with the process of impeachment itself. Rather, the nation's distress over the prospect of ousting Richard Nixon arises from legitimate if somewhat alarmist fears over the durability of our social order, and from the fact that king and kingship--or, more properly, president and presidency--have become strangely synonymous...
...resolved the crisis during the night before Kissinger's appearance. In fact, soon after Kissinger had finished outlining the reasons for the U.S. alert, the Soviets approved a Security Council resolution for a U.N. force to police the ceasefire. Thus, Kissinger could be accused of being unduly alarmist in his televised appearance, if indeed he knew by then that the Russians had agreed to back down...
...much of the U.S. seems to take a more alarmist view of the current dangers to détente, this may well be caused by differing perspectives on what a practical détente really means. The Russians seem willing to accept and to risk American-Soviet conflict in specific and localized situations as part of the normal competition between the two powers. The U.S. seems more inclined to see linkages between situations, fearing that conflict in one area threatens the whole relationship...