Word: warns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...numerous break-ins last week prompted the Freshman Dean's Office to install locks on bathroom doors and the Harvard Police to pledge to arrest, rather than warn, any trespassers in the first-year dormitory...
...expected to extend that further), and there are still all those chipless RCAs and Sonys currently in people's living rooms. Every set in the house would have to have the V chip, or else kids could just go into the bedroom to watch forbidden shows. Some critics warn, moreover, that it's only a matter of time before kids learn how to break the code and counteract the blocking mechanism...
While some experts say going back to a scheme of "fixed" exchange rates could make commerce more predictable, most businesses already protect themselves against currency fluctuations through modern hedging transactions. Most economists warn that the cost of returning to a gold-based currency could be enormous. Monetary authorities may be forced to raise interest rates even in the midst of a recession to encourage dollar purchases needed to defend the dollar's fixed value. The result? A mild business downturn could spiral into something far worse. Sticking with the gold standard in this situation would be the economic equivalent...
...near misses accrue, however, fewer and fewer air controllers buy this party line. They warn that safe air travel is being compromised by obsolescent equipment, reckless penny pinching and severe staffing cuts that have eliminated 2,000 controller positions since 1982, even as air traffic has soared 35%. Says Gus Guerra, a California controller: "It's almost as though they're waiting for a midair collision where we lose hundreds of lives before they finally see the big light bulb...
...many in the wrestling world were aware of the unstable nature of Du Pont, who had as many as 90 young athletes in his charge at one time, is not clear. Stan Abel, Schultz's former coach at the University of Oklahoma, claims he had tried to warn Schultz away from Foxcatcher but won't say why. Now Abel says simply, "I wish he'd taken my advice...