Word: alert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reactor core for 20 chilling minutes. "It was like losing your speedometer, dashboard lights and headlights when you're going down the road at 70," said Peter Slocum, a spokesman for the State Disaster Preparedness Commission. Plant officials declared a "site area emergency," the second highest level of alert under federal regulations. It was only the third time such an emergency has been declared...
...practical advice about asphyxiation by plastic bag or auto exhaust. Seemingly every detail is addressed: mixing pills with yogurt or pudding so that the patient does not vomit or pass out before ingesting a lethal amount; not turning off the telephone or message machine, because "any changes will only alert callers to something unusual happening"; having family members avoid any direct physical assistance, so they cannot be prosecuted; and, if concealment of the cause of death is sought, telling heirs to object to an autopsy...
...next day, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a bulletin to 600 key members, headlined ALERT -- IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED and calling for a lobbying campaign in Congress. By mid-June the group had pulled together a coalition of 21 national organizations representing 425,000 health- care professionals. Coalition activists hand delivered letters to every member of Congress, cornered the leadership of both Houses and pressed for a meeting with the President. Even the conservative American Medical Association * -- one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington -- raised its voice in protest. "We are convinced," said A.M.A. executive vice president...
None of which necessarily means that a conference will meet anytime soon. At least one of Assad's motives was to put the onus of blocking peace squarely upon Israel, should Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's government balk at accepting the same terms. Shamir is alert to that danger, but he is far from avid for a peace conference...
...Minister Ante Markovic warned, "We would find ourselves sitting on a bomb, which could destroy us all." His words proved prophetic. On Tuesday each republic proclaimed its sovereignty. The next day tank columns moved toward border crossings, and the 20,000 federal troops in Slovenia were placed on combat alert. In the early-morning hours of Thursday, 40 tanks and 20 armored personnel carriers rolled toward the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana to secure the republic's main airport, and traded artillery and antitank fire with small pockets of Slovenian defense forces. The airport was hit by air-to-ground missiles...