Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to draw the obvious lesson from these test results. How much happier would we be, how much more successful as individuals and civil as a society, if we were more alert to the importance of emotional intelligence and more adept at teaching it? From kindergartens to business schools to corporations across the country, people are taking seriously the idea that a little more time spent on the "touchy-feely" skills so often derided may in fact pay rich dividends...
...understand the need to alert others in your entryway and to be considerate to the possibility that others may have exams or may be ill. But filing party forms for the sake of ensuring the presence of a watchdog is ridiculous. We are not children unable to handle the responsibility of throwing a party...
...Several minutes of a sort of Asian-inspired country Muzak. Odd electronically-generated instruments sounding vaguely like kotos, but with a definite Nashville twinge. Who could have thought of this music? Time to alert Philip Glass...
...want to alert the community and ask for their cooperation in apprehending these suspects," said Harvard police Lt. John F. Rooney...
...question is why so many otherwise alert and responsible citizens are so ready to accept the notion that police racism and other acts of discrimination are aberrations rather than commonplace occurrences. And how, in the face of such reports, citizens can nevertheless believe that it is time to disregard race as a factor and take a ''color-blind'' approach to social issues. The Fuhrman tapes effectively refute the claim put forward by conservatives, both black and white, that prejudice no longer has much impact on the lives and fortunes of African Americans. Like most black men, I can testify from...