Word: alert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moore said that his book, despite the fears it might inspire in some college administrators, will ultimately do more good than harm. The publicity surrounding his book has helped alert colleges to the pervasiveness of students cheating, he said...
Although the Core program attempts to inform graduate students about potential teaching opportunities far in advance, some departments do not alert their graduate students about course offerings until the course catalogue is published, according to Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis...
...storms took residents and officials by surprise. The National Weather Service's Southern California office did not issue its first flood warning until after TV news accounts had already shown people being rescued from flooded highways. The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers said its inexperienced workers were slow to alert city disaster officials...
...protesters marched from the Capitol up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Washington Monument, demanding that President Nixon end the war. They carried coffins printed with the names of the war dead. Hundreds of paratroopers with loaded rifles stood on alert inside the Justice Department and the Pentagon. The White House was surrounded by Washington city buses parked bumper to bumper as a barricade...
...would, after all, be unfortunate to waste a trip to Montreal or Los Angeles cooped up in a row of hot seats given little to watch but an occasional dash or 10,000 meter walking race. Kahn's solution to all this highly sanctioned monotony is to keep an alert eye which is ready to wade through the crap and focus on the human quirks and foibles pervading the Games. In a piece on the 1984 Summer Games in L.A., for example, he directs our attention to an Olympic cookbook and team handball player Mary Phyl's favorite recipe...