Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even as investors take comfort in sound fundamentals, they look with alarm at the return of the greedy speculation and electronic sorcery that are blamed for the crash. The market has reacted with near hysteria to the possibility of takeovers, first in the communications industry in response to the Time-Warner deal and now in the airline business in the wake of bids for the companies that own Northwest and United Airlines. The takeover-stock mania has coincided with the return of program trading, a system in which brokerage houses use computers to buy and sell giant blocks of stock...
...Communist Party responded with alarm when Walesa proposed forming the government. On Friday, the Soviet Union joined in with expressions of concern, warning against possible harm to the stability of Poland and Europe...
Moreover, public health is damaged by the lack of trained medical detectives. M.E.s are usually the first to sound the alarm about faulty product design, new diseases or social problems like child abuse. Says Dr. Donald Reay, Seattle's chief medical examiner: "Look how much the public knows about cocaine and firearms. That's because people are dying from drugs and gunshots...
...know, the two accidents just may have been tragic coincidences, and DC-10s could be perfectly safe to fly. But there are enough similarities between the incidents to alarm frequent and infrequent flyers alike...
...about 10 p.m., just as I was pulling into the parking lot, I heard a car alarm go off, in another lot off to the side. I pulled into my designated spot, and the gentleman whose home faced the spot where I parked came to the door and very abruptly made the statement 'Do we have to put up with this kind of racket every night?' The only thing I could say was 'That wasn't my car. I don't have an auto alarm...