Word: alarms
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...kept working. On Wednesday, more than two dozen workers on Capitol Hill tested positive for exposure, and members of Congress began to fret. The bacteria is "very potent and clearly produced by someone who knows what he or she is doing," said Senate leader Daschle. Those alarm bells were prematurely silenced, though, by Tom Ridge, the country's new Director of Homeland Security. "There's no results that would suggest that it has been quote, weaponized, unquote." But 40 members of Daschle's office were treated, as was everyone on the surrounding two floors...
...Barely two weeks after Washington sounded a similarly opaque alarm based on nonspecific information, no one seemed to have a good answer. Just as we were getting used to what the Bush Administration is calling the "new normalcy," civilians and law enforcement alike braced for what they feared might be another horrifying strike on the home front. Before, they had trained watchful eyes on the weapon of the week, from crop dusters to haz-mat trucks; cops and civilians now had to view anything and everything with suspicion. The new normalcy was being redefined every minute...
...points out with alarm what he perceives as the leanings of Cambridge’s current City Council to interfere with private property rights, and says he will relax zoning laws and simplify permit processes to allow more rapid development by property owners in Cambridge...
...were caught flat-footed by the Sept. 11 attack. The hijackings were a bolt-out-of-the-blue strike. And there will be another attack, again a bolt out of the blue. Everyone is sure of that. So count on both agencies to sound the alarm at the slightest provocation, so no one can say they didn't warn us ahead of time...
Resident Tutor John W. Asker caused the fire and ensuing alarm, when he forgot to open the flue in his fireplace...