Word: alarmistic
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...alarmist article titled "Red Poison Tinges Ivy of Harvard," the infamously isolationist Tribune wrote that the hallowed halls of our nation's first university were "infested with pedagogic termites of communism, socialism, world federalism and other foreign-born schemes that would weaken the American Republic...
...again after this summer's glut, here's a good opening scene: Panicked scientist testifies before congressional committee. A mountain-sized space rock, he warns, "could hit tomorrow and we wouldn't even know it was coming." Pan across committee members wearing concerned expressions. Cut to spinning newspapers with alarmist headlines. Melt to crowds of city dwellers gazing anxiously at the heavens...
...nine University of California campuses is not dramatic. But in a state as diverse as California, any decrease in the admission of underrepresented students is both significant and dramatic. The drop in minority admissions across the entire system is disturbing, not to be shrugged off as liberal alarmist rhetoric. The University of California must rethink and retool its eligibility and admission policies to reflect the needs of an increasingly diverse state. We need to level the playing field and engage in a reassessment of our present definition of academic merit. EUGENE GARCIA, Professor and Dean Graduate School of Education University...
...Israel?s Mossad has, in the past year alone, had to deal with a botched assassination attempt on a Hamas leader in Jordan, which turned into a political disaster for Prime Minister Netanyahu, as well as the revelation that alarmist reports of Syria?s military intentions the agency had fed to the government had been dreamed up by the head of its Damascus operation...
International aid organizations are always alarmist, but they warn that based on their fragmented evidence, 2 million to 5 million people could starve to death. U.N. agencies and independent groups say 70% of this year's corn crop is lost, and half the nation's grain supply consists of corn. Jin Zhe, a shopkeeper in Yanji, a Chinese border city, visited her relatives' village in North Korea three months ago. "No one in the whole village worked," she says. "There was nothing to do, and people were too weak to work...