Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...electronic skills have been tested regularly while performing Rule Number Two: never leave the house without turning on the alarm system. Why a home with one key would have three keys for an alarm system defies logic, but I was willing to go along with...
Until, of course, I was left alone with the monstrosity. When the police arrived three consecutive mornings, I knew Rule Number Two had to be bent, a bit. I now live with the keys in the alarm system so they are in place when the accidental emergency occurs again. It defeats the purpose of having an alarm system, but it at least keeps the police away...
...Alarm has been growing for more than a decade. Scores of lawsuits have been filed by residents of Texas, New York, California and Louisiana, forcing utilities to delay, reroute and sometimes abandon construction of power lines. Seven states have set limits for the strength of electric fields created along power-line paths; Florida has also adopted a standard for magnetic fields. Fremont, Calif., requires that potential buyers of new homes adjacent to overhead lines be warned of possible health risks. Last month in Florida a judge declared that pupils of Sandpiper Shores Elementary School near Boca Raton could not play...
...want to consider whether electrical cables are near a desired property, but experts do not advise people to sell their homes to escape being close to power lines. Instead, some easy, inexpensive changes make sense. Among them: use electric blankets only to warm beds before retiring, place the electric alarm clock across the room instead of by the bed and sit at least ten feet away from the television set. Above all, avoid excessive worrying. Until the verdict is in, the watchword is prudence, not panic...
...despite Bond's pseudoretirement, he manages to retain the services of Q (Desmond Llewelyn), who supplies him with an array of lethal gadgets from exploding alarm clocks to signature rifles...