Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STRESS. Though many of those with apparently complete control over their emotions have high blood pressure, researchers have found that there is a relationship between stress and hypertension. Blood pressure normally rises with excitement or alarm. In most people, the pressure drops when the excitement is over. But according to one theory, in many the level drops by smaller increments, eventually stabilizing at a higher level than before. Significant increases in blood pressure were recorded among Russians who survived the siege of Leningrad and Texans who survived the Galveston Harbor holocaust in 1970. Similar increases might well be found among...
...administration responded by locking the doors to Claverly and placing a member of the security patrol and an alarm buzzer system inside, Epps said yesterday. The first floor windows were barred and peepholes were replaced, he added...
...Peking to reassure China that no secret deals had been made with the Russians and that improving relations with China remained, as Kissinger put it in his farewell toast, "a fixed principle of American foreign policy." The Chinese response was friendly, showing no signs of either suspicion or alarm. Said Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua: "The current international situation is characterized by great disorder under heaven. Mankind always moves forward amidst turmoil...
...Davies's shifting personality. There is Mr. Black, the original altruist and vanguard of the people, who gradually is tranformed into a crazy, tyrannical despot as his power increases. Then there is Flash, a corrupt gangster-like politician currently in power, whose mere presence is a cause for alarm among the people. Finally there is the Tramp, a social dropout who acts as the detached narrator and is probably the character with whom Davies identifies most...
...crux of Shaw's argument deals with the degree and tone of coverage. Neither he nor any other serious critic suggests that the press should have greeted Ford's accession with cries of alarm or should have treated the pardon routinely. News judgment is the most subjective of exercises; one editor's excess is another's sobriety. But Shaw's overall appraisal seems valid. Coverage of major running stories too often does take on a pendulum effect. The encouraging thing is that more and more journalists are worried about...