Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gladys Van Horne, another Martins Ferry native in attendance, suggests that some people around town may be keeping a tight lid on their natural elation. "They're proud, I'm sure -- more than might express it." Hardly anything in the poet's canon has the power to irk or alarm this woman, currently an editor for the Wheeling News-Register. "No, because I know all that happened," she says simply. "We were not intellectuals," Van Horne cautions when quizzed about Wright's near total early obscurity. "We were a coal- mining and a steel-mill town. That's where...
...Panics are based largely on mass emotion rather than analysis, and the global economy has become so complex that economists cannot predict with certainty what combination of stresses and strains is required to produce a chain reaction. For example, no particular dollar figure for U.S. indebtedness will suddenly trigger alarm bells. Says David Colander, an economics professor at Middlebury College: "Our $8 trillion debt is almost an irrelevant figure. Technically this economy could support a $30 trillion debt as long as the people believe the economy is still healthy...
...track to his hotel at the wheel of a tan BMW. At a traffic light, a pair of adolescent girls stand rooted to the sidewalk, staring at Cosby. He mugs at them with that marvelously mobile mask of a face, flashing through half a dozen expressions, from idiocy to alarm, in as many seconds. The girls crack up, the light turns green and Cosby speeds away, chuckling with pleasure at his easy ability to make them laugh...
...Wednesday his men rushed to request fingerprints from a "suspicious" black man reported downtown; they found that he was merely an innocent man from Pittsburgh who was standing around waiting for his brother. Otherwise, Kelly's teams kept up ! their door-to-door canvass, collecting prints and handing out alarm horns to women in the blue-collar neighborhood where the rapes had been concentrated...
...Mass allotted only 6 sq. ft. of standing room for each of 500,000 expected worshipers, the Metropolitan Health director, Dr. Katharine Rathbun, quit. "It's too dangerous," she warned, "and for the love of God, don't bring your children." Church officials insisted there was no cause for alarm; but just in case, a 600-bed field hospital has been arranged...