Word: alerted
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...husband's career,' " she says. "They try to make the one who's being battered at fault." Anxiety over their husbands' careers has led to a sharp drop in the number of women -- from 85% to 50% over the past two years -- who permit the shelter's staff to alert military officials to the women's visits. "A lot of that has to do with the pressures on the soldiers and their families," Polhill says. "And many are deathly afraid of their husbands...
While many civilian domestic-violence experts praise the strides the military has made in dealing with the problem, they say follow-through is often lacking. A Pentagon investigation last year surveyed 13 Pentagon prisons to see how many were complying with a 1982 federal law obligating them to alert crime victims, including abused spouses, when perpetrators are released. Not a single one was. In a 1990 case, a Kentucky woman, Andrea Turner, was murdered by her husband three days after his release from a military prison. The killer, who had been locked up for abusing her, said he shot...
...Senator Tom Daschle, the South Dakota Democrat, acknowledged that "it's safe to say that we won't allow a sky's-the-limit tax exclusion." And a top adviser to President Clinton predicted "a cap on the tax subsidy for upper-income people." Union leaders are on the alert. "We thought we had beaten this idea of taxing benefits, but now it's back again," said Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees...
...number of readers look askance at some of the words used to depict Wall Street's new gunslinger, the quantitative analyst ((COVER STORIES, April 11)). Sam Kirzner of Edison, New Jersey, writes, "Supernerds, high-water-pants alert, idiots savants -- these descriptions sound like sour grapes from people who can't understand the tools of today's market." Randall E. Sekeres of Atlanta believes we aimed "for the cheap laugh." Chris Danielson of Houston wonders, "How can you endorse the use of the word nerd? Granted, the , supernerds may be engaging in unusual business practices, but that is no reason...
...financial markets: the wild growth of derivatives ((COVER STORIES, April 11)). These complex new investment instruments have become so esoteric that only those who live in cyberspace can possibly fathom them. Since most of us inhabit the real world, we're fortunate that there are reporters who can alert us earthlings to the danger. Properly used, derivatives can lessen volatility. But $14 trillion floating around the world unaccounted for could lead to a financial meltdown. Congressional oversight is needed...