Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thwarted in every attempt on the Hill to advance his "social issues" agenda-banning abortion, reinstating prayer in public schools, ending the busing of students to desegregate schools-into real legislation, he has appointed himself as a special Senate watchdog on presidential nominations, one who is ever on the alert for signs of ideological deviation. Early in the Reagan Administration, Helms was able to delay confirmation of a few State Department officials whom he considered squishy-soft on Communism. But once the White House pushed a bit, Reagan and the Senate rolled right over the Senator's opposition. "Helms...
...Soviet ICBMs more serious, and harder for the Soviets to close, than the one that Reagan believes now faces the U.S. That would augur badly for strategic stability. It would mean that the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces would be more likely to go to a "launch on warning" alert. The more vulnerable its ICBMs, the more tempted the Kremlin would be to fire them off at the first indication of a U.S. attack-to "use them or lose them." The MX, in effect, would put the superpowers into the position of holding hair-trigger pistols to each other...
...Carrabino, the team's pro returning scorer, in street clothes because of a pre-season injury, the cagers put on an offensive display that brought a smile to the face of Coach Frank McLaughlin. Harvard shot an amazing 63 percent from the floor, thanks to sharp passing and alert transition play...
...worst thing about Sliwa's view is that it lumps together clumps of people and labels them as less than human. A typical photo in the book, showing a white person bicycling past two Black teens, carries the caption, "Stay alert and watch out for groups of punks." Ironically, this sweeping dehumanization and stereotype reflects the very feelings that apparently helped lead to the death of an Angel last year...
...friar Lawrence, who appears to function essentially as Romeo's freshman proctor. (In one of the show's nicest and most economical touches. Romeo, visiting Lawrence's cell grabs a Coke from the fridge before settling down on the bed to confess.) Rauch occasionally requires this thoroughly alert crew to do something odd--kill one another with picnic cutlery, for instance, or mutely clutch miscellaneous blankets and bedding around their shoulders in mourning for Juliet's initial "death." But the cast tends to rise to even the most arbitrary occasion, and delivers without breaking the illusion...