Word: alarms
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...only 37% of Americans believe the country is on the right track, according to the latest New York Times/CBS poll. When word spread last week that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was launching a full criminal probe into who had leaked Plame's identity, Democrats immediately raised a public alarm: How could Justice credibly investigate so secretive an Administration, especially when the investigators are led by Attorney General John Ashcroft, whose former paid political consultant Karl Rove was initially accused by Wilson of being the man behind the leak? A TIME review of federal and state election records reveals that...
...least twice in the past two weeks, Adams residents have been forced to file out of their rooms in the early morning hours because of an overly sensitive calibration of the House’s new fire alarm system...
Vincent James, a cook in Adams dining hall, said one evacuation was caused by smoke from a toaster setting off a newly-installed detector. He said that the detector was moved a few feet away from the toaster after the alarm...
Gingo said that the alarm system upgrades were part of a general plan to upgrade the fire detection and suppression systems in the Houses...
...absence of a UN mandate as a reason to keep their troops at home, but their calculations were primarily domestic. Such sweeteners as this week's $8 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. Treasury to Turkey may help persuade Ankara to send some 10,000 troops - to the alarm of the Kurdish parties on the Iraqi Governing Council - and South Korea may be persuadable to add to its current deployment of 700 non-combatant troops, if the price is right. Prospects of getting significant forces from Pakistan and India appear more remote, right now, and nobody at the Pentagon...