Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Collins went further: he set up the nonprofit Medic-Alert Foundation. Subscribers pay $5 each for a bracelet and a lifetime medical record kept on file at Turlock. The tag bears the snake staff of Aesculapius and the words "Medic Alert." On the other side is a warning, such as "Diabetic," "Skindiver" (subject to the bends), "Hemophilia," "Allergic to Penicillin." Engraved along with the warning are the wearer's identification number and the injunction "Phone 209-634-4917." Calls may be made collect, the clock around...
Recalling President Eliot's warning what excellence can lead to complacency, Berry stated that the Brigham has maintained its high excellence only by being "ever alert to this danger...
...popular saint is summarily debunked, the Bollandists couch damaging discoveries in guarded, hesitant prose. But they also believe that the faith of the church will be all the stronger if it is stripped of implausible legends. Father Coens believes that the "enlightened Christian" should always be "on the alert to protect his sense of fiction and reality, employing the reason that God has given...
Sugar mills, bauxite mines, docks, railroads and airports shut down. Store owners covered their windows with strong wire mesh, British tommies went on alert, a British warship stood offshore, and police armed with bayonets patrolled the streets of Georgetown. At week's end Cheddi was desperately trying to negotiate a solution to the strike. It was doubtful whether he could get away for a trip to the U.S., where he was scheduled to appear before a United Nations committee studying British Guiana's case for full independence, and he was forced to send his regrets to the Winnipeg...
...alert reporter noticed an unusual gap in the always busy schedule of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, 54. It was blank from May 9 to 31. True, confirmed Press Secretary Robert L. Mc-Manus, he knew of no "official activities" for the Governor between those dates...