Word: alert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only as Rubio staggered ashore in Nagua and provided the first word of the tragedy. Others drifted with the current as far as 20 miles out to sea and into shark-filled waters. Some of the victims might have been saved had prompt measures been taken after Rubio's alert. Yet military authorities, complained Civil Defense Director Cabral, did not respond to his call for rescue helicopters. In a desperate effort to locate the survivors himself, he commandeered a private plane, from which he watched the sickening scene. Said Cabral: "If we had helicopters, we could have pulled some...
...Prime Minister was out of the country for "medical reasons" that most of his countrymen believed were also largely political. Eight Cabinet ministers were reported to have resigned amid allegations of rampant corruption and to be held under house arrest. The acting Prime Minister ordered the army on alert, and roadblocks went up around the capital...
...goalie went out of the goal...I guess to protect his players," Harvard Coach Mike Getman said. "Bonnie was alert, took the kick...
...would be punished. As regular troops and Revolutionary Guards paraded through Tehran to mark the seventh anniversary of the gulf war, Khamenei vowed in New York that the "United States shall receive a proper response for this abominable act." U.S. military and diplomatic posts were placed on a worldwide alert against terrorist assaults...
...workouts for tots. But whose needs do they serve -- the parents' or the children' s? -- An alert for carriers of the sickle- cell gene...