Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crib alarm may aid those rescues. Tested since 1973 at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, the device consists of an electrode belt strapped on a sleeping baby, and a nearby monitoring machine that blasts a 70-decibel alarm (about as loud as a smoke detector) if the baby stops breathing for 20 seconds or if its heart slows. Of 270 apnea-prone babies enrolled in the program, three died when the device failed to rouse their parents. Since then, the alarm has been made louder, and 60% of the babies have had attacks with no fatalities; 160 have graduated...
Allan P. Slaff, assistant dean for administrative operation of the Business School, said similar fire-alarm problems occurred about three years ago, but he added malicious individuals are not responsible...
...their problems but made it clear that he faced a cash crunch. Then, tentative budget figures were leaked that suggested severe cutbacks in such fields as education, health, urban renewal, housing, mass transit and jobs for the hard-core unemployed. As expected, the drastic slashes set off cries of alarm...
...call was rich in irony. Blumenthal in 1977 won a global reputation as ''the man who talked the dollar down" because he argued that its drop would bring a beneficial increase in U.S. exports and thus was no cause for alarm...
...carried the Dow industrials down 105 points in the twelve trading days before last Wednesday. Gold shot up $17 an oz., to $243, in five days. The dollar sank and sank, in five days establishing four successive post-World War II lows against the Japanese yen. To Washington's alarm, the dollar fell not only against the strong German, Swiss and Japanese currencies but also against some of the world's weakest moneys?the Italian lira, the Spanish peseta, even the Canadian dollar, which earlier had fallen further and faster than its U.S. cousin...