Word: alarmistic
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...been easy, during Ariel Sharon's election campaign, to dismiss as alarmist - even hysterical - his opponent's warnings that the old soldier would plunge Israel back into war. But Monday's bombing of a Syrian position in Lebanon, coming on top of three weeks of escalated military activity against the Palestinians, certainly suggests that Israeli reservists shouldn't be too surprised if they find themselves spending more time with their units in the near future. Three Syrian soldiers were reported killed and a number were injured in the air strike on a Syrian radar facility near Beirut, bombed in retribution...
...Europeans to question whether -after eight years of Clinton talking of multilateralism without necessarily moving it forward -Bush's America is abandoning even the pretext. "In Europe, we're seeing an attitude shift from complacency to some alarm," says Robert Kagan of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The alarmist catalog would begin with National Missile Defense, move to the worsening relationship with Russia, and take in the harder line on North Korea and Iraq, and finally the tepid support for the E.U.'s ambitions in foreign and security policy. The U.K., a frequent arbiter between...
...further in Japan's favor. And the noise of a bursting stock-market bubble heard across the U.S. last week sounded eerily similar to what Japan experienced a decade ago. "It wasn't a miracle for Japan in the 1980s," says Tadashi Nakamae, an economist who co-authored the alarmist tome Wake Up, Japan! "And it wasn't a miracle for the U.S. in the 1990s either...
...whole alarmist business, from the study itself and the concerned murmurs of administrators and cops to the posturing of the beer-baiters at the Harvard School of Public Health, is just brimming with puritanical zeal. Forty-six percent, we are told, in hushed tones, like passers-by at a funeral. How terrible--these kids are just out of control--whatever...
...State James Baker, the solemn, senior aide to the Bush camp, says, "Our process is at risk," and we are "on the cusp of having this thing spiral out of control." Bush's strategy chief, Karl Rove, makes a legal battle sound like a civil war. Even a non-alarmist like CNN's Jeff Greenfield likened our democracy to a beautiful antique car sliding over a cliff...