Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brinks guy with his gun,ducking and shooting," said Chris Mackin ofOwnership Associates, a consulting firm on DunsterSt. "The person who looked like he was shot deadwas wearing a fake beard and mustache. But thedriver, he was clearly alert, you could see hiseyes...
...Trend alert: world figures are showing up in literary lists. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter just published his poetry. Now Muammar Gaddafi is out with a book for children. The Libyan leader has written Al Karia al Karia: Al Ard al Ard (The Village the Village: The Land the Land) to teach the values of agriculture and rural life. Sort of a Little House on the Desert
...charged withplotting to blow up city landmarks, Newsday reported today. The newspaper quoted unidentified law enforcement experts as saying they received "uniformly credible" reports that a group of terrorists was ordered to carry out a high-profile attack during the trial. Police already had put private security forces on alert as the second anniversary of the Feb. 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing approaches. TIME New York correspondent Adam Cohen said police may be taking the latest threat seriously because "fundamentalist terrorists, in general, are rather obsessive about anniversaries...
...burst at critically weak points. A placid landscape of willows and windmills threatened abruptly to become Apocalypse Now: if the dikes go, the lives and savings of tens of thousands of people would be swept away. Almost all the embankments were holding as last week ended, but a red alert persisted. Saturation had made the dikes top heavy and even more unstable as water levels subsided. As soldiers continued to rush sandbags into otherwise deserted southern towns, authorities put together emergency plans for bolstering the shakiest bulwarks more permanently. ``Holland has a long history and a great reputation when...
...Justice Department is defending a New Jersey law that requires cops to alert residents when a high-risk sex offender moves into their neighborhood. Attorney General Janet Reno cited sex offender recidivism rates as high as 75 percent as she announced assistance for New Jersey in battling three challenges to the new law. The first challenger, convicted rapist Carlos Diaz, claims the law violates his constitutional rights to privacy and due process. Diaz defense attorney Ronald Chen told TIME Daily that federal intervention would have little affect on his case...