Word: alarms
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...Scientists, water professionals, environmental campaigners and others have warned for decades that a water crisis was building - alarm bells that rang on many a deaf governmental ear. The crisis is partly due to natural cycles of extreme weather and the expansion and contraction of arid regions. But human activity has been playing an ever-greater role in creating water scarcity and "water stress" - defined as the indication that there is not enough good-quality water to meet human and environmental needs. Like so much of the earth's bounty, water is unevenly distributed. While people in some parts...
...recent days, HUPD has had to request help from CPD when responding to an assault, a chemical spill and a two-alarm fire because they lacked sufficient manpower...
...recent days, HUPD has had to request help from CPD when responding to an assault, a chemical spill and a two-alarm fire because they lacked sufficient manpower...
...Cambridge Fire Department (CFD) fought a two-alarm blaze in an apartment building near Harvard Law School yesterday afternoon...
...entered a hard landing sometime last summer," says Allen Sinai, chief global economist for Decision Economics. "And we are in at least a hard landing now. The odds are pretty high that we could end up in a full-fledged recession." Sinai sounded the alarm early last year, but most forecasters were blindsided by the speed with which the economy deteriorated. And they took us down with them...