Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordered this done because I have viewed with increasing alarm the negative activities of spectators in this area over the past two years. Both teams must be allowed to play the game without facing the prospect of serious injury or interruption of the contest due to items being thrown on the ice. A visiting team should not have to play a game while being subjected to a continuous barrage of obscenities...
...morning in the midst of his successful 1966 bid for a seat in the U.S. Senate, Illinois' Charles H. Percy was awakened by his wife's screams. He set off the piercing burglar alarm atop their 17-room mansion in Kenilworth, a suburb of Chicago. When he entered the bedroom of his 21-year-old twin daughter Valerie, the girl lay agonizingly near death-her face, chest and stomach mutilated by stab wounds. In the seven years since the slaying, Illinois state police have interviewed more than 14,000 people, spent over $300,000, and painstakingly pursued...
...altered its Middle East policies, Saudi Arabia would begin to close the oil spigot. The hints were ignored, and Feisal sent his oil minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, to Washington to give the word directly to then Secretary of State William Rogers. When Washington yawned, Feisal himself gave the alarm in interviews with American reporters...
Department chairmen attribute their poor showing in moving forward with affirmative action to a lack of qualified women and minority group members. That is why the infinitesimal number of blacks entering the GSAS is cause for such alarm--with a tiny pool of minority group members from which to choose, Harvard can continue claiming it cannot find qualified people. The problem regarding women is different but equally serious; although more women attend the GSAS, they are concentrated in a handful of departments, thus also sharply limiting the size of the applicant pool. To be sure, Harvard does not recruit...
...high, spiked iron fence surrounds the house on the Bois. The heavy gate, always locked, is guarded round the clock, and an electronic alarm system supplements the bars at every window. A former French paratrooper patrols the grounds. The duchess has her own "hot line" to the police station at the corner. Special security agents are on call to accompany her when she goes out in the evening. She never uses sleeping pills or earplugs. "I want to be alert," she says. Often at night she gets up and goes to the windows to see that the watchman...