Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When they spot trouble, residents of certain high-crime areas rush to the scene, blowing their whistles. In lower Manhattan, some 135 residents of the East Third Street Block Association are being given a pocket device to carry on the street. When activated, it will set off a loud alarm attached to a nearby building, alerting neighbors to call the police...
...responses. Within seconds, all lights in the house are turned on. Forty seconds later, alarm bells start ringing in the house. Then the computer signals the main gatehouse with a high-frequency beeper, simultaneously printing out on a teletype machine the address and phone number of the endangered home, plus the exact time of the message...
...values we extol?freedom to be different." Neither China nor the U.S.S.R. releases crime statistics, but China's problem, for example, is apparently minimal, presumably because of heavy indoctrination and severe social controls. Although its crime rate is rising the Soviet Union seems to have far less cause for alarm than...
...national elections, the Communists increased their share of the vote by 5.1%, to 33.4%. The Christian Democrats, with every other party trying to wrench votes away from their centrist support, lost 309,843 votes. They were down 3.1%, to 35.3%, dangerously close to the 35% that represented an "alarm line" for Christian Democratic Boss Amintore Fanfani. All together, the Communists trailed the Christian Democrats by fewer than 600,000 votes. Their total vote, 10.1 million, was the largest ever cast for a Communist party in the West...
...budget and borrowing practices. Because five of its voting members are appointed by the Governor and four by the mayor, the corporation will inject the state government into city affairs. Big Mac will receive regular reports on the city budget so as to be able to sound the alarm if the city turns profligate anew. Current-expense items now make up 40% of the capital budget: over the next decade they will be put back in the current operating budget where they belong. The city will be limited in its short-term borrowing to $8 billion, which will be shaved...