Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...international crises go, it would be hard to find a more mundane conflict than one about oil-drilling rights in a disputed patch of the Aegean Sea. Yet last week Greece and Turkey came close to blows over just that argument. Athens ordered its military forces on full alert and threatened to forcibly prevent the Turkish research vessel Sismik 1, with an escort of two warships, from conducting petroleum explorations in waters near the Greek islands of Lesbos, Lemnos and Samothrace...
...says Psychiatric Social Worker David Lee. In a double bonus, women inmates in Gig Harbor, Wash., are training special dogs to aid the handicapped. For one family with a daughter who suffers from a neurological disorder, a dog was schooled to pick up signals of an impending seizure and alert the girl and her parents. "The dog knows before the girl does that she is going to have one," says Leo Bustad, president of the Delta Society, a Renton, Wash., group that funds pet studies...
Rockford (pop. 140,000) was the victim not of a lethal twister but of glitches in new computer software used by the National Weather Service. The tornado alert was one of five test alarms that were incorrectly sent out to local radio stations last week. Few Rockford residents believed the warning anyway. They know their weather, and early-morning tornadoes are rare indeed. Says Rockford Mayor John McNamara: "We don't take tornadoes lightly here...
...like the false spring temperatures that warmed the nation's capital last week, the uptick in the President's fortunes could be merely transitory. Artful as it was, Reagan's speech did not resolve the most serious question raised by Iranscam: Is the President at 76 sufficiently alert and involved to lead the country? To regain political advantage for the final two years of his Administration, Reagan must still overcome formidable obstacles, particularly the ongoing investigations of the scandal and his passive work habits...
What happened was that we saw three lions, and Moses suddenly came alive in the purest spontaneous act. The presence of the lions brought Moses electrically alert. The damndest thing. The lions brought the visitor electrically alert as well, though with less self-confidence...