Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jack Morse, captain of University Police, said yesterday police arrived immediately and searched the first floor area after the evacuation. He said people familiar with bomb searches handled the case, but added that a bomb squad was on "alert and standby" in case the search team located a bomb...
Della Terza said he felt it his "duty" to alert the Harvard community to the extent of the suffering in Italy. He urged those who wish to help to contact the American Red Cross in Boston...
...first day without losing his way. The trained White House staff that goes from Administration to Administration will have his office decorated, fresh flowers in place, his schedule typed out, phone hooked up, Air Force One ready to fly, the hot line at hand, the Marine band on alert, and the pastry chef set to spin his sugar magic...
...money request for fear of a more pronounced Soviet intervention in the country's internal affairs. Says Lawrence Brainard, a Bankers Trust vice president: "The real issue is what is the price of political stability in Eastern Europe." More broadly, the Polish problem seems certain to alert lenders to the dangers of much offshore lending, which in turn will make borrowing more difficult for impoverished nations around the world...
...reason for the flurry of strange ailments is that diagnosis constantly becomes more refined. Dramatic advances in laboratory technology, like the use of radioactive substances, have helped doctors better understand disease processes. Also, physicians are more alert in reporting both established and unusual illnesses to their colleagues. Some apparently new diseases existed in the past, notes Epidemiologist Michael Gregg of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, the nation's primary illness-monitoring station. But Gregg adds, "There may also be an essentially evolutionary environmental change. Something that is going to bring the host, the agent and the environment...