Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hospitals across the country, disorganized, underfunded and understaffed emergency services are on the critical list. In Chicago not long ago, a fire-department rescue team rushed a 19-year-old gunshot victim to a nearby hospital emergency room unfamiliar with such cases. Within hours the patient, who had been alert and in satisfactory condition, began to fail. The hospital staff, unable to respond adequately, belatedly asked the Cook County Hospital trauma unit to take the patient. On his arrival at the facility, some five hours after first receiving medical aid, the youth was dead...
...appeal of the real. The press is the Holden Caulfield of the political game, always on the alert for phonies. Gary Hart was nabbed for philandering, and Joe Biden was caught barking up Neil Kinnock's family tree, but the media's primary target became Gephardt's populist pretensions. The Missouri Congressman needed to peddle the antiestablishment line to revive his stalled Iowa campaign, but he only invited ridicule when he imported nearly 40 congressional insiders to join him on the barricades. In contrast, the blandness of Bush and Dukakis was often exasperating, but it stemmed so naturally from their...
...said he instructed building superintendents after the accident to "by all means follow procedure, but be alert beyond that...
John says that securing a teaching position fora given semester requires sending letters andresumes to departments and faculty, but if agraduate student stays alert, he can find a spot."If one asks around, one can usually hear ofopenings" for teaching fellows, he says...
...mimics some of the actions of adrenaline, a hormone, and acetylcholine, a powerful neurotransmitter that touches off the brain's alarm system, among other things. After a few puffs, the level of nicotine in the blood skyrockets, the heart beats faster and blood pressure increases. Result: smokers become more alert and may actually even think faster. In addition, nicotine may produce a calming effect by triggering the release of natural opiates called beta-endorphins. Thus a smoker literally commands two states of mind -- alertness and relaxation...