Word: alarms
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...soon to say whether his current bout of illness is cause for alarm: ?This time we could get off lightly, but nobody knows,? says Quinn-Judge. ?Yeltsin?s administration provides very little information about the president?s health...
...world of paging, Motorola has teamed up with Timex to produce the world's first wristwatch alphanumeric pager. More convenient than clipping a standard pager to your belt, the new $130 Beepwear offers a choice between a silent flashing alarm or an audio tone to signal incoming pages. Right now, only the California Good Guys chain is selling the Beepwear line, but these watches will work in any metro area that offers Motorola FLEX coverage; talk to your paging company for details...
...point, for it is the top-down nature of the Asian model itself that is the real cause of the crisis. This model bred complacency, cronyism and corruption. Isolated from public opinion, just as they insulated bankers and businessmen from market forces, the technocrats ignored the deafening clamor of alarm bells that market forces have been ringing for years. Worse still, because there was no public scrutiny of the iron triangle of bureaucrats, businessmen and bankers, the natural coziness that developed in that clique led inevitably to decisions based on personal relations. At best this was inefficient, at worst corrupt...
Nicole's story: 250 wedding guests assemble at the church. The bride arrives in her bridal radiance. The appointed hour. No groom. Hmmm. Buzz, buzz. Time passes. Still no groom. Fidget and buzz. Guests swivel in their pews to scan the back of the church, in mounting alarm. At last, the best man--looking grim, dressed in street clothes, not formal wedding regalia--appears and reports that, Sorry, the groom has decided he cannot go through with it. Shock, tears, consternation--The Philadelphia Story upside down, or turned sideways, anyhow...
...their own money on their campaigns. Nineteen spent $1 million or more. And with nearly a full year to go before the 1998 elections, 133 House hopefuls have plunked down at least $50,000 of their own cash. In California, Senate candidate Darrell Issa, a car-alarm magnate, has pledged to put up as much as $14 million--and that's just to win the primary...