Word: alarmistic
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...Every house needs a door, and every country needs a border," says Colorado's Democratic Governor Richard Lamm. If the U.S. fails to stop illegal immigration, he warns, "we shall leave a legacy of strife, violence and job-lessness for our children." Florida's Senator Lawton Chiles is equally alarmist. "If we do not regain control of our borders . . . I think that within ten years, we will not recognize the United States as the United States we see today...
...years. A recent Pentagon publication goes so far as to claim that "with high priority and some significant risk of failure, the Soviets could skip some testing steps and be ready to deploy a ground- based laser BMD (ballistic missile defense) by the early-to-mid-1990s." That seems alarmist; the Pentagon itself describes the Soviets as being about equal to the U.S. in laser technology...
...with Chile, is known to be deeply concerned that the Moscow-leaning Chilean Communist Party has with increasing stridency voiced support for "all means of struggle," including armed warfare, against the government of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. A U.S. official described Alfonsin's assessment of the problem as "not alarmist. He didn't urge the U.S. to take any action...
...including Tom Landry and Don Shula, to explain basic concepts that are rarely covered by Sunday-afternoon color commentators. One of the most ambitious cassettes is Strong Kids, Safe Kids, in which Host Winkler guides parents and children through a discussion of sexual abuse. If the tone seems somewhat alarmist, the mix of interviews, songs and animated segments brings the message home with sensitivity and skill...
...political scientists and other commentators do so all the time. But when a chief of state talks that way, he roils Soviet insecurities and implies that it is the aim of the U.S. Government to bring the Soviet regime down. That tends to confirm the Soviets' pessimistic and alarmist view of Reagan and make them all the more obstreperous...