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Why, even economic managers in government have raised alarums over the Cha-Cha process being pushed by a now-notorious Bedan law graduate.

(99) James Agate, Alarums and Excursions (New York: George H.

Despite the alarums of the Vaterland, what of the resistance within Muttersprache?

During the last decade the alarums about the advent of peak oil grew ever more frenzied.

The vision of a Europe, over which the alarums of war shall no longer be heard, must have rendered digestion easy and have given the listeners food for reflection for hours to come.

Few will disagree, that while in terms of wars and alarums, the 1971 war may have been a short historical event, its larger development -- the creation of Bangladesh -- is something that has had lasting consequences, for the better or the worse.

The history of recent relations between China and the United States tells us that despite serious differences of policy and politics, and despite alarums and excursions along the way, the two countries have managed this relationship successfully over the last 40 years, if by 'success' is meant the avoidance of conflict or a serious long-term breakdown in the relationship or if 'success' means the skilful and careful management of diverse issues.

It seems to me that by the same process they are also made less "real"--diminished, in part, by the physical size of the television screen, which, for all the industry's advances, still shows one a picture of men three inches tall shooting at other men three inches tall, and trivialized, or at least tamed, by the enveloping cozy alarums of the household.

In the wake of these latest alarums, the noted Jordanian columnist Urayb al-Rintawi recalled in Al-Dastour the bombings which in 2005 killed 60 people in three Amman hotels.

Favorini co-wrote a script with playwright Lynne Conner, and the resulting production was Silent Spring: Alarums & Excursions, an impressionistic interpretation of Carson's themes.

When writers rail against what's likely to be the most significant literary development in half a millennium, they aren't just rehashing the same tired po-mo end-of-history alarums that have kept us bored for two generations.