But ringing the fire alarm about job automation when it seems unlikely to happen on a large scale is irresponsible.
It was a day when journalistic accuracy changed, when millions of high school seniors decided what they'd write their personal statements about, when the alarm clock of the American Muslims started to buzz loudly, determined to wake us up.
A professional musician who says she attempted to raise the alarm about Ling's abuse when she was a sixth former at Chetham's, said she was experiencing mixed emotions.
Blackhall, head of palliative medicine at U-Va., sounded the alarm about drug diversion in 2013, when she found that most of the 23 Virginia hospices she surveyed didn't have mandatory training and policies on the misuse and theft of drugs.
Leon sounds an angry alarm about the environmental damage done when mafias are allowed to take over toxic-waste disposal, and Brunetti despairs of being able to defend his city, poised on the "welcoming and oh-so-unprotected waters" of its lovely laguna.
Chinese property prices were soaring to record highs late last year, defying gloomy predictions, when the alarm about a real estate bubble sounded from a most unlikely source: developer Zhang Xin, the 44-year-old chief executive of Soho China".If you look at the central areas of Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, prices have doubled," Zhang says.
An alarm sounds when the tank has about six minutes of oxygen left, and department procedure calls for a firefighter to leave the fire at that point.
More recently, finance ministers from Germany, Finland and the Netherlands set off new alarms about the fund when they issued a statement proposing that any bank bailouts from it go only toward future problems — not to help clean up current messes.
Frantic relatives in Cuba and Miami had passed on reports that they departed for the open sea 10 days earlier, raising alarms about their fate when they ostensibly failed to make a landfall within a week.
They respected Ms. Block, so when she expressed alarm about the operation of Medicare's drug benefit, they paid heed.
