Word: alerted
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Merchandising computer lists of bad-risk clients has spread to other fields. Chicago-based Docketsearch Network Corp. has compiled the names of 2.2 million Americans who have filed medical-malpractice, product-liability or personal-injury lawsuits. Doctors who subscribe to its $150-a-year Physician's Alert service can call a special toll-free number, give a prospective patient's name, and within 25 seconds find out if the individual has a penchant for filing lawsuits and ought to be handled with care. This summer Docketsearch plans to expand its listings to include records of bankruptcies, tax liens and workers...
...From the Syrian capital they were transported to the Syrian embassies in East Berlin and London. Their alleged targets: the German-Arab Friendship Society in West Berlin (blown up on March 29), an El Al jet en route from London to Tel Aviv with 360 aboard (saved by an alert El Al baggage inspector), and possibly the La Belle discotheque, also in West Berlin (destroyed on April 5, killing a U.S. Army sergeant and a Turkish woman and injuring 230). The prime suspects are two Syrian-trained Palestinian brothers, Achmed Nawaf Mansour Hazi and Nezar Nawaf Mansour Hindawi...
...radioactive form. That created lines of up to 100 customers at Warsaw drugstores, while special all-night pharmacies had block-long queues even at 4 a.m. Washington advised women of childbearing age and all children against traveling to Poland because of potential health risks. Rumania, declaring a state of alert in all parts of the country, urged people to stay home and to avoid drinking rainwater...
...full damage is known, but it is becoming clear that the explosion and fire at a reactor north of Kiev may be the worst disaster in the 32- year history of commercial atomic power. As radiation- laden clouds blow westward, angry Europeans berate the Soviets for failing to alert them earlier. In the U. S., the question: Could it happen here? See WORLD...
...Monday of last week, Van Voorst, who had also spent his third weekend in a month on alert, found the Pentagon "like a cemetery. People normally easy to see were simply said to be unavailable; telephone calls went unanswered. There was an eerie silence." When Halevy's contacts disappeared at the same time that afternoon, one source told him, "They're all at the White House Situation Room." From then on, says Halevy, "it was clear that the only thing to do was to wait and hope for a safe, successful outcome." Even before that was confirmed, Van Voorst, Duffy...