Word: alarms
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Thanks to the Enron and WorldCom corporate accounting scandals, whistleblowing is enjoying a renaissance in the U.S. Both Cynthia Cooper, the internal auditor who sounded the alarm over WorldCom's $3.8 billion in bookkeeping shenanigans, and Sherron Watkins, who first voiced concerns about Enron's accounting tricks, have won acclaim as right-thinking individuals struggling against morally bankrupt business cultures...
...officer was sent to Straus Hall to investigate a fire alarm. The fire allegedly started when two male intruders burned a charcoal...
...Indeed, the arrest of 21 male relatives of Wednesday's Tel Aviv suicide bombers in order to exile them from the West Bank signaled Israel's despair - the move, yet to be legally approved by Israel's attorney general, would formalize the principle of collective punishment, and it raised alarm among Israeli human rights groups. But the fact that even dovish foreign minister Shimon Peres appeared to support the principle of exiling the families of bombers revealed the dearth of new ideas on how to deal with the relentless terror onslaught...
...video monitors displays scenes from 825 cameras arrayed around the airport. Mitch Greenberg, a former paramedic, was the man in the hot seat one recent Sunday, scanning the screens and barking into a microphone to deal with each security infraction--such as a pilot's setting off an alarm at a secure door when his ID badge is misread. For major incidents--big weather problems as well as security breaches--the action shifts to the room next door, where a SWAT team of airport personnel are summoned around a circular conference table whose centerpiece pops up at the push...
...Other countries have already sounded the alarm over the potential pitfalls. In the U.K., illegal possession of tranquilizers containing benzodiazepine is a crime punishable by up to two years in jail. Benzodiazepines are classified as dangerous drugs in Hong Kong. In the U.S., teenagers and twentysomethings who take Xanax recreationally are known as "Xannie-poppers." Among their ranks: President George W. Bush's niece, Noelle Bush. In January, she was arrested in Florida for posing as a doctor in order to obtain Xanax without a prescription...