Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Would he venture peace, threats, war? Would he last for years, six months, six weeks? At a press conference in Naples, Clinton said he saw no reason to panic. Though South Korean President Kim Young Sam had ordered his forces on emergency alert just in case, Clinton said he agreed with Washington's top brass that events had revealed "no evident alarming change" and that nothing ) so far warranted beefing up the 35,000 U.S. forces now stationed in the South. Asked what he thought of Kim Jong Il's prospects, however, the President admitted, "I don't know...
...community that views itself with some pride. Popular books and lectures about ADHD often point out positive aspects of the condition. Adults see themselves as creative; their impulsiveness can be viewed as spontaneity; hyperactivity gives them enormous energy and drive; even their distractibility has the virtue of making them alert to changes in the environment. "Kids with ADHD are wild, funny, effervescent. They have a love of life. The rest of us sometimes envy them," says psychologist Russell Barkley of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. "ADHD adults," he notes, "can be incredibly successful. Sometimes being impulsive means being decisive...
...same time, one would think that all the dissidents and opposition forces in North Korea would have been waiting eagerly for just this moment. South Korea put its military on alert as soon as the death was announced; could any nation in the world have better intelligence or foresight about the coming events in the North...
...gangsta rapper. He doesn't mean to glorify the rough world he comes from, merely to render it. "I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death," he raps. The shootings two years ago showed Nas that in a violent world you have to stay alert and aware; Illmatic is his wake-up call to his listeners...
...Despite U.S. satellites and other intelligence-gathering assets, the warning time of a North Korean attack will be negligible. A year ago, military officials predicted a weeklong alert. General Gary Luck, the senior U.S. commander in South Korea, cautions that his forces will have as little as 12 hours' warning. A congressional defense expert whittles that still lower, predicting that advance notice "is as long as it takes to load and fire an artillery shell: about 10 seconds...