Word: alarmistic
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...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...
...Fifth Element." More than the other industries, movie studios have taken the criticism with heads bowed in shame, with either stony silence (Universal) or ready conciliation (Disney). Shame is certainly in order for some marketing practices, but entertainment companies could easily argue with the FTC's occasionally alarmist tone and scattered lapses in logic. They could also respond by asking why Gore and Lieberman are concentrating on guns in movies while falling silent on the issue of gun control. Or why Congress has commited itself to video game violence while giving trade benefits to China, where human-rights abuses have...
...that the government has surrendered almost all its case against Lee, having been forced along the way to drop many of its most basic claims - the "crown jewels" claim, for example, looks more than a little alarmist when viewed in the light of the fact that, as Lee's attorneys pointed out, the data he downloaded was classified "restricted" rather than "secret" - it's worth examining how the media deals with off-the-record information from highly placed sources who demand to remain anonymous...
...Never mind that military unreadiness - and the alarmist tone Cheney and Bush are sounding on it - is starting to look like about as enticing a campaign issue as that $1.3 trillion tax cut. After a decade of U.S. military successes almost as overwhelming as its economic ones, it's a crisis voters weren't particularly aware of, and a solution they aren't particularly crying for. But never mind that; for Cheney, it sure beats heat over executive pay packages...
...Where will you be when the missiles come?" asks a recent alarmist TV ad promoting national missile defense. The answer for Al Gore, of course, will be "on the campaign trail." Because although nobody's likely to fire missiles at the U.S. anytime soon, that won't deter Governor Bush from mercilessly beating up on the Clinton administration's ambivalence over the system. And the latest leaked intelligence finding by the nation's spy agencies is less likely to help President Clinton make up his mind than it is to exacerbate his dilemma...