We were also surprised to hear one piece of percussion: an old fire-alarm bell.

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It turns out that what seems like an annoyance is actually an alarm bell.

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So every alarm bell was ringing at the prospect of a second Great Depression.

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So Hardis and his new president, Alexander (Sandy) Cutler, rang an alarm bell.

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Beneath the alarm bell summoning the nation to a new danger, most moviegoers will detect the familiar tones of big-budget exploitation.

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The red Fire Warning light is bad news when it lights up, but you can silence the alarm bell by pressing it.

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Blankfein and Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase ( JPM) have recently taken to the public to sound the alarm bell on the cliff and investors should listen.

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Scientists have begun sounding the alarm bell that we have a much bigger and more complicated issue developing with water becoming more acidic, this time in our oceans.

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