Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this concern with "sound financial practices" which should make anyone familiar with Harvard's stingy habits start ringing alarm bells immediately. Of course Harvard, on the road to a $7 billion endowment (for God knows what purposes if not expanding rather than cutting educational services) is in no fiscal crisis...
...hall was cloudy, McIntosh said, but when she saw the smoke alarm flashing, she walked into Stoltzner's room and called the Harvard police...
...share of problems in the past--we've been here for 50 years but nothing recently," Levine said. "We have a very good security system: an alarm, motion detectors, you know. We have people's clothes here so we have to be careful...
Students should not have to look over their shoulder going to class in the morning or home at night. Common activities, like running by the river in the afternoon or returning late from a party, should be cause for alarm...
...last week the turkey flock they consider their own made its annual reappearance. There are 16 birds this year, hens and gobblers, milling about in an inch of new snow. A parked car doesn't bother them, but if you try to approach on foot, they sound their alarm call, "putt," or "putt-putt," and wander off into the woods in a not very alarmed fashion. Real alarm would send them running at about 25 m.p.h. or flying at up to 55 m.p.h., which they can do for several hundred yards at a stretch. It's clear that what they...