Word: alarms
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...after the Institute crisis, a company plant in South Charleston, W. Va., leaked about 4,000 lbs of an ontoxic mixture used to make hydraulic brake fluid.) The company's beleaguered chairman, Warren Anderson, traveled to West Virginia, where he announced that in the future Union Carbide would sound alarm swarning nearby residents at the first sign of any trouble. "We'd rather be accused of crying wolf," he said, "than be accused of not doing the proper thing at the proper time...
...being aimed at it, nuclear-plant security in the U.S. is superior in some ways to that of other countries. Earlier this year the British government reported that from April 2003 to April 2004, nuclear-plant security was compromised more than 40 times; guards failed to answer an intruder alarm during a burglary, for instance. In 2003 Greenpeace volunteers breached the control building of a plant and scaled the reactor dome. Before 9/11, most plant guards were unarmed, but in April the government established the Civil Nuclear Constabulary to supply armed guards. So far, however, it consists of only...
...meetings became instead intense, intelligent discussions of how to fix poor management at the University. Seeing the administration “behind the scenes” this spring has reaffirmed my faith in the genuine concern of professors for the education Harvard provides—and increased my grave alarm about the current top leadership of Mass. Hall and University Hall...
...1990s, announced that they had found common ground on the issue as well. The renewed search for a comprehensive health-care solution reflects a deeper tide of concern in corporate America over the debilitating costs of providing health insurance and pensions for employees. These concerns are accompanied by general alarm in the Party of Sanity over the fiscal irresponsibility of the Bush Administration, the continuing frustration over the war in Iraq, and the Administration's failure to lead instead of attempting to dominate an Alliance of Sanity in the world...
...control. He and co-organizer Midge Ure implored anyone who could to skip school or work to go to Edinburgh (70 km from the G-8 meeting) on July 6. A headline the next day in the Edinburgh Evening News read "URE GOING TO CAUSE CHAOS," echoing the alarm of local authorities, who may be unprepared for such an influx and forced to rent portable toilets from the Continent. Live 8 downplayed the call to march, but by then faced fresh criticism - that although Paul McCartney, U2, Madonna and other rock royalty are signed up, few black performers and only...