Word: alarmistic
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...union was having too much fun and making too much money to pay much attention to Helling's warning. It was far easier and financially prudent to ignore the issue, to assume that Helling was an alarmist prone to exaggerating, and to make sure everyone involved knew as little as possible about players injecting hard-core steroids into their asses. Don't ask, don't tell and don't care was the unwritten code...
...figure of inspiration and division: Joe the Plumber and Bill Ayers in one large package. In the presidential campaign of 2004, one party saw Mike the Documentary Filmmaker as a spokesman for working-class rebelliousness, and the other as a symbol of left-wing extremism: Michael Moore, domestic alarmist...
...news withheld by the sinister liberal media. Several of these letters have seized upon the apparently shocking fact that Senator Obama’s middle name is a name common in the Middle East—among Muslims! These letters, of course, appeal only to those willing to inhale alarmist propaganda without a moment’s worth of fact-checking. Yet the true disappointing consequence of these outlandish suggestions is that the defenders of Obama’s good name unwittingly dig in to positions they should never have taken. To defend Obama as John McCain did?...
...Navy's 5th Fleet in Bahrain - believe the weapons were headed elsewhere. "We are aware that the actual cargo was destined for Sudan, not Kenya," Christensen told the Associated Press. Christenen's press releases have since dried up, and Mwangura has been arrested by Kenyan police for issuing "alarmist statements...
...Coming after 9/11, What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East and The Crisis of Islam Holy War and Unholy Terror seek to explain the roots of extremism. His take on these subjects has often been controversial; some scholars accuse him of being needlessly alarmist about the "clash of civilizations" - a term he coined before Samuel Huntington's book. Lewis's latest book Islam: The Religion and the People, (Wharton School of Publishing) co-authored with Buntzie Ellis Churchill, is a useful primer for those who know little or nothing about the religion...