Word: alerted
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...recalled that every major U.S. base had been warned of that more than a week earlier. Bratton and others urged a new warning. Marshall scrawled a message reporting the 1 p.m. meeting and added, "Just what significance the hour set may have we do not know, but be on alert accordingly...
Vermont is considering allowing moose hunting for the first time this century. New Hampshire has extended its hunting season. And Massachusetts has put game officials on alert to respond to the increasing number of sightings in residential suburbs and even cities as young moose are pushed south by their territorial elders...
...settlement more imaginable but also, in one sense, less crucial. While there is every reason to hope for success in the new round of talks, it is comforting to know that if failure there leads to another Middle East war, U.S. and Soviet nuclear forces will not go on alert against each other...
Such thinking is likely to gain force in the wake of Gorbachev's Saturday response to Bush's nuclear initiatives. The Soviet President, who telephoned Bush at Camp David to give him a 20-minute preview of his proposals, followed the U.S. in taking strategic bombers off alert and moving their nuclear weapons into warehouses. Gorbachev also followed Bush in scrapping tactical nuclear missiles, land based as well as naval. In addition, he proposed negotiations to reduce the number of remaining strategic weapons by half, while at the same time announcing that from now on Soviet mobile missiles would...
Physicians cannot prevent patients from taking more tablets than instructed. But following all the publicity about the abuse of Valium in years past, doctors should be more alert to the dangers of overreliance on tranquilizers and sleeping pills. Even if the FDA does not find the evidence against Halcion strong enough to ban the drug, it should be used less cavalierly...