Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Insurers have already had an impact on the debate about climate change through their actions in the marketplace. Soaring premiums and insurance cancellations alert residents of coastal areas that changes in weather patterns can have profound economic consequences. With 50% of the U.S. population living within 50 miles of a coastline, ordinary people may also begin to draw a similar connection between climate change and their own well- being, should the windstorms continue...
...futile exercise, postmodern theory still has useful work to do: "Despite what we can discern in a lot of postmodern theory as the assertion of a lack of grounding... it seems to me that we willy-nilly constitute such authorities and authenticities every day-necessary." But although theory can alert us to "the constituted and contingent nature of those touchstones...it is less useful in so far as it neglects to indicate how we might construct touchstones that would work better ad in more socially and politically progressive ways than the ones we have so far." Paradoxically, it is only...
...want to alert these alumni as to what we are doing, and hopefully with their feedback and involvement we can enhance our movement," she said...
Conspiracy theory alert: this past Monday (the 21st) marks The New Yorker's 69th anniversary and is also the 29th anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination. Think about...
...could identify colors . . . and was adept at dominoes . . . The most logical explanation . . . was Munito's exceptional sense of sound, not smell . . . As Munito circled the cards with an "air of reflection," the trainer would . . . make an almost inaudible clicking noise with his fingernail or a toothpick. This would alert the dog to the proper selection...