Word: alarms
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...foreign minister; Prince Bandar, the regime's top national security official; and Prince Turki, the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. The trio delivered a letter from Saudi King Abdullah to Bush. And though its content has not been made public, the Saudi government has made no secret of its alarm at Israel's relentless bombardment of Lebanon and at the burgeoning humanitarian crisis in Lebanon and Gaza. Still, the Saudis are expected to join delegations from Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon in Rome, as well as European envoys and World Bank officials, who will help come up with a reconstruction plan...
...that included a warning about the risk of a local tsunami, according to Fauzi, the department's chief. Fauzi told Time his agency subsequently relayed text messages warning of the quake to about 400 Indonesian officials in disaster management, but there was little they could do: there were no alarm bells to ring on the beach, no emergency broadcasts to transmit over the radio or TV, no way to warn the people on the coast. The Ministry of Research and Technology, which heads the development of Indonesia's tsunami-warning system, came under criticism for failing to raise a clear...
...National Disaster Warning Center, the first such command post opened in the region after the 2004 tsunami. Sri Lanka, too, has earned plaudits for coordinating with UNESCO's regional efforts, and developing a strong system for disseminating warnings from the capital, utilizing churches and temples to help sound the alarm...
...struck fear into women's hearts, beating those who let a glimpse of wrist or ankle peek out from beneath their burqas. The hated religious police were disbanded when the hard-line Islamic regime fell in 2001. But President Hamid Karzai is planning to resurrect them, much to the alarm of human rights groups, parliamentarians and Western diplomats...
...times Depp nails the subtle touches that make for classic comedy. When he's miming alarm or confusion, for example, he does terrific things with his eyes. Sometimes they're bright with half-formed schemes. Sometimes they're addled with a flickering panic he can't entirely hide. In those moments he takes us behind the conventional hero's stoic mask and allows us to see Jack for what he is: a presexual child pretending to be a man of decisive action and romantic élan. You might say he's the anti--Errol Flynn...