Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision, welcomed by both commercial and private aviation circles, capped a controversy over appropriate anticollision gear. The device that passed the old Marine's personal muster is a bureaucratic mouthful: Threat Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS, for short). But there is nothing complex about its goal: to avoid disastrous collisions like the one that caused the deaths of 144 people when a small private plane crashed into a commercial jet over San Diego in 1978. The risk of similar mishaps-25 occurred in 1979 (the latest year tabulated) with the loss of 34 lives-could become greater...
...planes. These radar-like pulses in effect create an electronic cocoon or bubble extending out in all directions from an aircraft for up to 22 nautical miles. If another plane pierces the bubble, its presence is almost instantly noted in the cockpit. In the cut-rate TCAS-I, an alert sounds and lights up. In the more complex TCAS-II, a cockpit screen not only displays the intruder's position (at 2 o'clock, say), distance and altitude but also tells the pilot whether to dive, climb or just remain on course to avoid disaster. The action taken...
...parliament, dominated by Muslim fundamentalists, voted by an overwhelming majority to impeach Banisadr for "incompetence." His fate is now up to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Meanwhile, as his own supporters met the mobs in bloody combat, Banisadr dropped out of sight, and border and airport police were on the alert to prevent him from fleeing...
...first time, he has an indestructible charm. Another comedian might grow desperate in such unpromising circumstances. Not Pryor. The easy subtlety of his glances and gestures, never too big, always wonderfully readable, almost convinces one that something worthwhile is happening here-or is about to. One remains alert to his possibilities. And wishes that the people who make his pictures would try to attain a similar state...
...would perhaps be truer to the rueful mood he tries to establish. One feels he is sometimes easing away from the tougher implications of his tale. There is also an empty prettiness to his shooting, especially in the transitions from season to season. Still, American movies are rarely as alert as The Four Seasons is to the tensions implicit in friendship, to the social conventions by which people try to control the anxieties of ordinary life, and one cannot help responding warmly to the good work of an obviously decent man. -By Richard Schickel