Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fully alert, the booters began to take control...
...money bag. While the guard was distracted signing receipts in a cafeteria at Los Angeles International Airport, the tiny girl reached into the bag and pulled out a bundle of cash totaling $8,300. She then toddled back to her nearby parents and handed it to her father. An alert cashier who ! happened to see the exchange rushed over to George Arias, 36, and his wife Joanna, 22, to retrieve the money. As she approached, the wife proffered the bundle and apologized for her daughter...
...Buffalo on a special mission. But he gets lost downtown and strides into the City Court Building for directions. Bare- chested, with a sweaty bandanna around his head and what looks like an AK-47 rifle in hand, Rambo strikes terror in all who see him. A police alert goes out. Dozens of officers search the courthouse corridors. One policeman, Gerald Baetzhold, draws his revolver, trips and shoots himself in the foot. Our hero, unaware of the chaos he has caused, has already left the building and delivered a Rambo-gram, a terse but humorous message, to a lawyer across...
Lawyers for the victims contend that Robins knew the Dalkon Shield could be dangerous long before the company stopped selling it. They also complain that Robins refused to alert women who were still wearing the device to have it removed. It was not until last year that the company finally ran full-page newspaper and magazine ads that warned women of the Dalkon Shield's risks and offered to pay the doctor's fee for having it taken out. To this day, though, Robins maintains that the Dalkon Shield is just as safe as any other IUD when properly inserted...
...cultural centers in Tunis and the seaport city of Sfax. As tension between the two countries grew, the Tunisian news agency reported that three Libyan aircraft had flown 30 miles into Tunisia. The pro-Western government of President Habib Bourguiba, which has already put its army on the alert, fired off a protest to Gaddafi over the violation of Tunisian air space. Tunisian Foreign Minister Beji Caid Essebsi gave a somber assessment of the situation, describing it as "a grave and direct threat to peace in the region...