Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love the bows the couturiers take at the end of their shows. Yves Saint Laurent's are the best. He often walks out warily, as though he hadn't been exposed to strong light for a while. At last month's ready-to-wear show, however, he was alert and effusive to his adoring models...
...Please let my interpreter come, please let her come explain to me what you gonna do?!' " Although federal law vouchsafes a right to interpreters, financially strapped hospitals often slide by with a minimum of service. Deaf AIDS patients nationwide are used to screaming, moaning and banging things just to alert hospital workers to their needs...
...Angeles-based AIDS Education/Services for the Deaf, pre-eminent in its field in 1990 thanks to a three-year, $432,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. AESD barnstormed the country, giving three-day training classes to hundreds of deaf activists on how to alert people to this "new" disease. They were a hit in 25 cities and < were invited to 37 more. But the grant was not renewed. AESD had failed, like most other deaf AIDS organizations, to fulfill a basic requirement for steady government funding: a tally of the infected. Until recently, deaf activists...
...third and supposedly climactic round of high-level talks between North Korea and the U.S., to discuss trading diplomatic recognition and economic aid for the North's full compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and other Western demands, was scratched. South Korea put its 633,000 troops on alert. Seoul also accepted an American offer to deploy 48 Patriot missile launchers to defend against North Korean Scud missiles and announced that it had resumed planning for the Team Spirit military exercises with the U.S., suspended in February to placate the North. Washington weighed whether to supplement...
...ALERT. Of 24 male performers who either presented or won awards at last week's Academy Awards ceremony, seven -- 29% -- didn't wear ties. Two recently fashionable items were also not in great evidence on stage: red ribbons and faux-brainy eyewear...