Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called the Radio Road Alert System, and it warns the driver of conditions ahead. Transmitters of limited range (about 200 to 500 ft.) would be planted at fixed spots along the road. Car radios would be outfitted with loops of pre-recorded tape. The transmitters would automatically signal the tape to play such warnings as "Reduce speed school crossing ahead" or "Ice conditions ahead" when the car came within range. Other transmitters would be carried in police patrol cars so that an officer could advise motorists to "pull over, fire engines approaching...
There is only one hitch: once Radio Alert is installed, it cannot be shut off. That's very distracting...
...prevent secret concentrations of power and to alert stockholders to ma jor changes in ownership, companies now will have to publicize acquisition of 25% or more of another company...
...alert airlines agent tipped off reporters that the Isabel Martínez de Perón, 32, on the manifest was exiled Argentine Dictator Juan Perón's comely blonde wife, and when she landed from Spain at New York's Kennedy airport, the newshounds had her surrounded. She was just changing planes, she cooed, and was on her way for a three-week "vacation" in Asunción, Paraguay. Since sun-scorched little Paraguay is hardly a jet-set spa, rumors buzzed that she was preparing yet another Perón attempt at El Retorno. Peronistas...
...weapons have changed both war and politics, Aron says. In typically compact language he explains: Three radically new elements are instrumental in determining the three major concepts of strategic theory, concepts that suggest the three responses so far worked out to the triple challenge of monster weapons, permanent alert, and annihilation of entire nations without the need first to disarm them. The first is deterrence, symbolic of the effort to substitute the threat of force for its actual application; the second is stability, replacing the obsolets notion of balance of power and designating the theoretical situation in which no nation...