Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...died. Others say it perpetuates the myth that life can be safe, although a look around at the filthy rivers, decrepit nuclear plants, air thick with pollution and tons of toxic wastes with no place to go shows that life is nothing of the sort. What the Alar alarm and the fruit furor do show is that certain risks -- those that are up close, personal and capable of capturing the public imagination -- make regulatory decisions politically easy. But while all the fuss was being made over the slight possibility that some fresh fruit had been poisoned, hundreds of other perils...
...Salvadoran Correspondents' Association, citing the deaths of the three journalists covering the vote, accused the military of intimidation. "In these three incidents, we note with alarm a tendency on the part of the armed forces that appears aimed at intimidating and frightening the press corps in order to make their work more difficult," the association said in a statement...
...same day, firefighters also had to respond to a false alarm at the Faculty Club, which is located next to the Union. Lt. Kenneth W. Clark reported that "smoke from fireplace activated the detector in the room...
...inflation news sent tremors of alarm through homes, offices and executive suites, where memories of the inflation battle of 1981-82 still linger. Those fears were quickly rekindled when major banks, led by Chase Manhattan, boosted their prime lending rate from 11% to 11.5%, the second increase in two weeks. At week's end the Federal Reserve confirmed the quickening trend by raising its discount rate, which is the rate it charges banks for short-term loans, from 6.5% to 7%. Anticipating the effects that $ rising rates will have on business and the economy, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged...
FIVE minutes after I turned my alarm clock off, I received a frantic phone call from my roommate, who urged me to get down to Harvard Hall right away. I rolled over and went back to sleep. Ten minutes later she called again, this time sounding really concerned. So I threw on a pair of sweats and dragged myself through the snow to Harvard Hall, cursing all the way and wondering why I became such a hockey freak...