Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week, HRDC members put up posters around campus to alert minorities to Common Casting. Later this month, during Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism (AWARE) week, they will hold a workshop addressing the problem of making "racial choices in casting," Davidson said...
...Western Europe jittery American allies wondered whether Reagan was once again indulging himself by kicking his favorite terrorist -- and what the cost would be. Military bases went on alert in Italy, where Lampedusa Island was the target of an amateurish Libyan missile attack after the U.S. bombing of Tripoli in 1986. Britain supported the U.S. assertion that Rabta is intended for weapons production, but the Thatcher government urged Washington not to attack it. The French, who are host to the chemical-weapons conference at UNESCO headquarters, were irritated. The sharpest criticism came from the leftist Paris daily Liberation: "Gaddafi...
...dubious journalistic test of airport security last week, a / correspondent and producer for France's TF-1 television network tried to place suspicious packages on three flights leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport. When an alert TWA employee spotted one of the packages, he found a note inside saying, "Congratulations! You have found our phony bomb." The two men were arrested by the FBI and charged with conspiracy to violate air-safety laws...
...leader of the FBI team, Willem Dafoe (who played the martyred sergeant in Platoon and the humanist Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ) is a stick of righteousness waiting to explode. But the movie also finds recesses where human dignity and compassion wait to be summoned. It is alert to the shifting emotional weight and moral responsibilities in any relationship, especially in the quiet interplay of Hackman and McDormand, two ordinary middle-aged people searching awkwardly to be of use to each other. Hackman caps a brilliant career here as an FBI agent that both J. Edgar Hoover...
...same honor to environmental scientists? At the conference, the proposal was backed by everyone from U.S. Senator Albert Gore to Vasili Peskov, a correspondent for the Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. Peskov | suggested that the first environmental Nobel be given posthumously to Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring helped alert the world to the pollution threat...