Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three-alarm fire began at about 2 p.m. in a basement storage room beneath Crate & Barrel and caused over $150,000 in damages, according to Deputy Fire Chief Gerald Reardon...
According to Rebecca Roth, Crate & Barrel's designer, smoke detectors within the building did not trigger the alarm. Instead, employees said, they smelled smoke and someone pulled the fire alarm...
Danny P. Sata, who said he did not hear the smoke alarm, was doing electrical work in the basement of the store when the fire started...
...already begun to take some measures to clean up its act. A plantwide sensitivity-training program was belatedly established last year. And while managerial jobs have not been affected, the company claims it has fired 10 workers--four this year--for incidents of sexual abuse. Perhaps more important, the alarm bell has finally sounded at the Tokyo headquarters of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Chairman Hirokazu Nakamura admitted that "there were such cases" at the Normal plant but insisted that they were dealt with properly. Nakamura also expressed concern that Americans would draw the wrong conclusions about the cars that continue...
...stage military activities in the DMZ, the situation, to our relief, did not get immediately serious. Although the military leaders of both sides had called for the highest alertness of their armed forces, the international community has not viewed this somewhat routine violation from North Korea with particular alarm, and the United States downplayed the chances of a second Korean War. Let us hope that all of North Korea's reckless provocations were just for the purpose of pressuring the United Nations into holding peace treaty talks, instead of signaling to the world that it's going crazy. What will...