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The beginning of the show, in the Wedsworth-Townsend Act, everything is quiet, your seeing the fire trucks, then you go up the pole, see all of the fireman and then, breaking the silence, the big loud fire alarm blasts waking not only you but also the fireman up.
These packages add to his already paranoid state, making him install a high tech alarm system and put pad locks on everything.
Several people have mentioned the "bathing the baby" scene, but my favourite is the alarm clock scene.
False alarm?
Charles Winninger, usually wonderful in films, plays an inventor who creates the most inane burglar alarm in film history.
Of course there's much alarm between these two countries that they now have these two seemingly out-of-control computers calling the shots, and meetings are held to decide what to do.
The ABCs of NCD CareGENEVA – The World Health Organization recently began sounding the alarm about a deadly new pathogen called Disease X.
When British Prime Minister Theresa May says that she wants to “make a success of Brexit,” she sets off alarm bells in Brussels and other European capitals, because such an outcome could inspire populist anti-EU movements elsewhere.
In a series of opinion articles over the last five years, they have repeatedly sounded the alarm that the risks of nuclear weapons outweigh any possible usefulness in today’s security environment.
There was more amusement than alarm at a conference of 800 nuclear specialists in Washington, DC, in March, when a senior Air Force general, eerily channeling George C. Scott in “Dr.
Indeed, Trump already set off alarm bells during the campaign with careless remarks about trying to renegotiate US debt by buying it back from creditors at a discount.
Very few among them (notable exceptions including Nouriel Roubini and Robert Shiller) raised alarm bells about the crisis to come.
Kerry’s misstep was followed by alarm over outsourcing across the West.
Since last fall, when the right-wing PiS took power, the country’s democratic backsliding has caused increasing alarm, both at home and abroad.
The decline has been gradual, so it fails to alarm voters, but Swedes certainly notice it when they go abroad.
But the passing from the national stage of Richard Lugar has properly rung new alarm bells not only among concerned Americans, but also among policymakers far removed from the US and its partisan battles.
Second, the decline in US power and influence relative to China and other rising powers is natural, inevitable, and not a cause for alarm among those long reliant on America’s protection and support.
Despite China’s official hard line, some Chinese environmental officials privately express alarm at run-away carbon emissions, and suggest that foreign green tariffs would actually strengthen their hand in domestic policy struggles over controlling greenhouse gases by helping to win political support for emissions cuts.
Social unrest, on the other hand, has already erupted, with violent protests by students and radical trade-union factions fueling alarm – as have threats and aggression against officials of both trade unions and employers’ associations.
Sounding the alarm on inequality, the Bank of Italy calculates that the combined wealth of the ten richest Italians equals that of three million of their poorest countrymen.
LONDON – Protesters in the United Kingdom are sounding the alarm over a perceived resurgence of anti-Semitism in politics.
On the contrary, the UNHCR is not only still with us; it is sounding an alarm.
This led to real alarm among policymakers whenever a threat to confidence appeared (as when the dot-com bubble burst at the end of the 1990’s).
In emerging-market countries that are already struggling with the impact of rapid currency appreciation on their competitiveness, expansionary measures announced in recent weeks by the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan have heightened the sense of alarm at the Fed’s decision.
The new French president’s commitment to a European growth policy has brought hope to citizens, and should not alarm anyone – certainly not the financial markets.
America’s Free-Trade AbdicationNEW YORK – The indifference and apathy that one finds in Washington from both the Congress and President Barack Obama on the Doha Round of world trade talks, and the alarm and concern expressed by statesmen elsewhere over the languishing negotiations, mark the end of the post-1945 era of American leadership on multilateral free trade.
When will it be too late to sound the alarm?
It is hard to sleep well in a state of alarm.
He argued that if Israel were to take the lead in sounding the alarm on Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the issue would be perceived as yet another “Israeli problem.”
It is not the extent of the financial system that should alarm us, but its concentration and connectivity.
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