Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...travelers looked like typical American tourists as they ambled along Rome's Via Veneto. Then an alarm watch jangled on one man's wrist...
...Daniel L. Shaw Jr., medical director of Wyeth Laboratories, told the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Asso ciation that reports of adverse reactions now go to the Food and Drug Administration, which compiles them in a monthly review. Relayed to press and public, review items often cause alarm. But they consist largely of unevaluated "raw data"; many of the cases, said Dr. Shaw, have not been checked to make sure whether the patient was indeed taking the drug named, or taking other drugs with it. The FDA, which cannot afford to investigate every case, keeps the names of doctors and patients confidential...
Store managers, in general, figure that the theme does not matter so long as the display catches the eye. Comments the display director for a big department store outside Washington: "Decorations act as a little alarm clock to tell people that Christmas is just around the corner. They are a way to remind people that if they wait until the last minute they won't get their shopping done...
...bringing it into equilibrium-a balance of payments deficit or surplus of no more than $250 million. Whether they will also tend to choke off investments that produce a golden stream of returning profits is another question. Voicing that fear last week, General Electric President Fred J. Borch expressed alarm at the global trend toward "resurgent nationalism" in economic affairs. "Businessmen all over the world cannot fail to be greatly concerned," he said, "about today's mushrooming restrictions on international trade and investment. Once set in motion, they will be difficult to turn back, leading to an escalation...
...pacify the extremists without success, and Ian Smith succeeded in calming them only with his declaration of independence. Now the small group of European extremists thinks that free from interference by Britain they can develop the country in the most "sensible" way for both Europeans and Africans. In their alarm they have jumped from the frying pan into the fire of world opinion. They'll need all that fire to light their excess cigarettes--for their prime crop, tobacco, is no longer likely to find many buyers on the world market...