Word: alerted
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...their most recent experiments, Benson and Wallace studied 36 people who had been meditating from under a month to nine years. I heir results indicate that meditation is both a released and an alert condition. It is different from the states of wakefulness, deep sleep, and dreaming--in other words a fourth state of consciousness...
...Yorkers grow ever more fearful of muggers, Ronnie and his friends find them increasingly willing to fight back. "Before, brute strength was enough," he says. "Now people are running around with hatpins, knives, even guns. You gotta be alert. You gotta know who to take off." Once Ronnie and other gang members followed a man into an apartment elevator, pushed him up against a wall and demanded his wallet. The man pulled out a .45-cal. pistol so they fled...
Former Attorney General John Mitchell once said of the Nixon Administration, "Watch what we do instead of listening to what we say." It is an apt alert. The gulf between the two can be wide, and nowhere more so than on the subject of welfare reform. Nixon has long been on record as saying that reform of the "welfare mess" was his "White House priority No. 1." Yet for more than a year he has put little of his prestige and even less of his energy behind his own reform measures. Last week, with welfare legislation finally before the full...
Airline crews can seldom prevent skyjackings, but they can usually alert ground stations to what is happening. Every commercial aircraft is equipped with a transponder, a small radio transmitter that sends out automatic signals on any chosen frequency. The secret signal for skyjackings in recent years was 3100 on the transponder. Any airliner "squawking" on that frequency had been skyjacked and could be expected to request a new destination...
Almost all the major grain firms are privately owned, and their officers have an understandable preference for secrecy as they play their complicated game against alert, swift competitors. Six firms account for 90% of U.S. grain exports, including Memphis-based Cook Co., Argentine headquartered Bunge Corp., Swiss-owned Garnac and French-controlled Louis Dreyfus Corp. The two giants, which share half the world's grain shipments, are Cargill Inc. of Minneapolis...