Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Move over, Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. The race is on to produce a stamp that will alert consumers to products that meet the highest standards of environmental safety. The Green Seal, introduced last week, should start appearing early next year on such products as toilet paper, light bulbs, laundry cleaners and facial tissues that meet the criteria established by a panel of scientists. "Our objective is to help American consumers vote with their pocketbooks on environmental issues," says former Earth Day chairman Denis Hayes, who is chief executive of the nonprofit, Washington-based Green Seal project...
Early in life, too, we become seized with the bizarre idea that we are constantly assaulted by invisible monsters called germs, and that we have to be on constant alert to protect ourselves against their fury. Equal emphasis, however, is not given to the presiding fact that our bodies are superbly equipped to deal with the little demons, and that the best way of forestalling an attack is to maintain a sensible life-style...
Henry, good-humored and alert, is not so very different from Akbar, the smart-alecky mujahedin boy who in the battle zone of Afghanistan grew closer to his comrades than to his father. In Henry's insular world, his homies are his only family. It is his enemies who keep changing. Despite designer sneakers and all the food he needs, Henry is far poorer than Akbar. He has no cause, no purpose to his fighting, no dream of redemption in another life...
...panel will also look into a hot dispute about the SRAM-A (for Short- Range Attack Missile), another weapon that would be launched in a nuclear war against the U.S.S.R.: it is carried by bombers on airborne alert and designed to knock out Soviet radar installations, defensive missiles and airfields. The fear is that a fire aboard a bomber could ignite the missile's volatile fuel, which in turn could detonate some of the chemical explosives in its W-69 warhead...
...last week's Senate hearings, directors of three nuclear-weapons laboratories, including Livermore, unanimously argued that the SRAM should be ( taken off the bombers flying on alert, put into storage and made removable only at a base commander's order. John Tuck, Under Secretary of the Department of Energy, which builds nuclear weapons and shares responsibility with the Pentagon for their safety, told the subcommittee, "I think that's the direction we're going." Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams, however, insisted that the Air Force would keep the warheads on "alert" status, at least until the safety study is completed...