Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official: "I can't drink a beer without security men. I can't go to the toilet without security men. My family life is ruined. And I can't have a relationship with another woman without security men." A Bavarian tycoon grumbled that the elaborate alarm system hastily installed in his house is forever going off, "sending the two resident guards running into nowhere with their pistols." After the Schleyer kidnaping, Daimler-Benz received 138 orders for bulletproof Mercedes-Benz limousines...
Thousands of cholera cases alarm the Middle East...
Unfortunately, to quiet their alarm, the all-powerful majority will reject the discipline's predictions. Like economics, linguistics and psychology before it, sociobiology will wind up as just one more haven for professional "explainers," for those soothsayers whom we honor as scientists as long as their findings turn out to be soothing...
Scientists themselves sounded the first alarm when they began to fear that tampering with DNA, the basic molecule of life, might accidentally lead to the creation of new, uncontrollable strains of disease-carrying bacteria. Now most experts have decided they greatly overstated the dangers. But many laymen have remained frightened ever since research at Harvard designed to create new combinations of DNA in the bacterium Escherichia coli K12, or E. coli for short, stirred passionate debate last year (TIME cover, April 18). Last week, after long hearings, Congress was scheduled to act on two bills seeking to control such research...
...expense of the city's four other boroughs. Justly. Although it quickly mobilized a journalistic SWAT team for last month's blackout, the Times has only one full-time reporter stationed in all of Queens (pop. 2 million) and none in The Bronx (pop. 1.4 million). When a ten-alarm fire consumed all the buildings in seven square blocks of Brooklyn five days after the blackout, the Times ran the story on page...