Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holyoke Center arcade is no concert hall, but Turner said he enjoys playing there nonetheless. "It softens the concrete." Turner explained, adding that audiences in Cambridge are "very verbal and very alert...
...playing a portion of the tape of the Soviet pilots. The U.S. got that tape from the Japanese government only after Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone had overruled his own intelligence advisers, who wanted to release only summaries. Japanese intelligence officials feared that public playing of the tape would alert the Soviets to their methods of gathering data. It did; by late in the week, Japanese recordings of Soviet pilots' chatter had dropped two-thirds, because the Soviets had changed their radio frequencies and codes. In both Japan and the U.S., however, political leaders decided the world simply...
...where the plane went down. The U.S. moved five F-15 jet fighters from Okinawa to northern Japan, but did not send them into the area. The U.S. Air Force also dispatched at least one AW ACS surveillance plane to Hokkaido. In the tense situation, both superpowers raised their alert status in the region, but no one wanted to provoke yet another air tragedy...
...Exposition. Among devices in the more-than-500-booth exhibit was a $2,000 alarm made by Texas-based Sennet Systems that is equipped with a computer-synthesized voice. When activated, the unit can phone a homeowner anywhere in the U.S. and use its 256-word vocabulary to alert him to the precise nature of a security problem. Linear Corp. of Inglewood, Calif., showed off a $199 outdoor surveillance system that, when tripped by an intruder, floods a home and its surroundings with up to 500 watts of light. Linear also displayed a $49, three-quarter-ounce transmitter that...
First Novelist Pa tricia Roberts, 46, follows the formula of police procedurals closely enough to make mystery readers comfortable and adds enough variation to keep everyone alert. Hackett realizes that Alice is his best and only hope for information. John James (a pseudonym, apparently) said things in front of his stepdaughters that might lead to his identity; the detective must coax Alice into remembering snip pets of conversation that she did not understand in the first place...