Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Pallamary was surveying a construction site in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon last month when he noticed smoke pouring from an apartment house across the street. Vaulting a fence, Pallamary, 32, rushed into the building and, despite thick smoke and intense heat, pounded on doors to alert some 30 occupants. Then he tried unsuccessfully to rescue Tenant Tim Hurley, 19. Finally Pallamary collapsed. When he left the hospital two days later, he was handed a city paramedic bill for $189.93 -- including a 50% surcharge because he lives out of town...
...National Guard fulfills an equally critical function. It has been assigned almost full responsibility for the defense of the continental U.S. against enemy air strikes. Kept on 24-hour alert, the Air Guard flies 78% of all the interceptor aircraft in the U.S. inventory. In any call to large-scale combat, the Air Guard would handle 49% of all tactical air-support missions...
First-aid stations have been set up in the Yardand, for more serious injuries, the CambridgeRescue Squad will also be on alert...
Says Ford, "We have planned and planned, butyou've got to stay alert--that's the name of thegame...
...State of the Union address. During a round of golf in Palm Springs, Calif., while the President was on vacation, Secretary of State George Shultz, a trained economist, mentioned academic studies about the advantages of a flat tax (that is, everybody paying the same rate). Reagan, ever on the alert for a plausible way to cut tax rates further, inserted in his State of the Union , speech a 37-word passage pledging to "study ways to simplify the tax code and make it more fair for all Americans." For a year nothing much happened. But as the time came...