Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mainly when traffic is relatively light and when "the stress is off air controllers, and they are not paying attention." Some of the working controllers, who were still putting in 60-hour weeks (they are scheduled to be cut back to 48 hours this week) are worried about remaining alert as the months go by. "I have to ask myself, 'How long can I do this?' " concedes Harry Burke, a Los Angeles controller. Admits a supervisor in Oakland: "It's just not realistic to think this can go on for two years." Safety Expert John Galipault...
...wistful inner ear, one imagines a soft transcontinental buzz, the sound of 13,000 consciences alert and intricately working. "Well," says each troubled voice, "I'd like to strike. I think we have plenty of reason to strike-wages, hours, job strain. But I signed an oath when I took the job. It would be dishonorable to strike. We have to find some other...
...Maze springs alive for the prisoners around midnight when the guards tend to be less alert and less in evidence. The perfect evening is when the air is still, without a trace of wind or rain. Prison leaders shout into the quiet darkness and their voices carry easily between the H-blocks separated by about 100 ft. The men are called "scorchers," an anglicization of the Gaelic word scairt, for shout, and they fill the air with orders and questions and plain gossip. Sometimes they conduct quiz shows, asking questions about entertainment figures, geography, history. When someone wins, a cheer...
...striking photographs that accompany the story, Photographer Neil Leifer spent four days in basic training with a brigade at Fort Knox, Ky., while Photographer Mark Meyer visited a strategic Air Force base in the Northeast and joined a B-52 bomber crew on a simulated nuclear-alert mission. After getting a look at a Boeing air-launched cruise missile plant in Seattle, Meyer moved on to Eglin Air Force base in Florida, where he covered one of the largest peacetime parachute drops in U.S. history. Says he: "It's one thing to read about military hardware in the newspapers...
What if the warhead had been nuclear? Then, says the Pentagon soothingly, the accidental launch could never have occurred; safety procedures for nuclear-armed missiles are much more complex. Happily, St. Croix has no early warning system to alert it to a missile attack, and presumably no second-strike capability if it thinks it is being attacked. What if the errant missile had been fired across, say, the Soviet border? The Pentagon trusts no missile would ever be so unguided...