Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through the state's longest and most widespread drought. New Delhi recorded ^ its hottest day in more than 40 years in June; Rome last week had its hottest day of this century. Torrential rains have become so severe in Hong Kong that meteorologists coined a new term -- black rainstorm alert -- to signal their approach. Weather-related losses at Lloyd's of London are staggering. Says underwriter Richard Keeling: "From what we have experienced over the past four or five years, we have either been very unlucky or things are getting worse out there...
When a book makes headlines months before its scheduled release, the publisher and author can normally uncross their fingers and alert their accountants. Is such euphoria warranted even when the headlines are rotten? That question concerns Simon & Schuster and Joe McGinniss, the best-selling writer (The Selling of the President, 1968; Fatal Vision) whose forthcoming biography of Edward M. Kennedy, The Last Brother, has been prompting a blizzard of bad news. Biographic License? headlined the Washington Post. The New York Times put the matter, bluntly, on its front page: Kennedy Quotes in New Book Are Invented...
...sent out an alert basically to each university in the country," said Bill Carter, an FBI spokesperson in Washington D.C. "Do you know the person the letter was sent from? If you don't, you should be very cautious...
...Long remembers his office on "full alert trying to produce and process quantitative data to help the congressional vote for the budget." Day to day, he analyzes the impact of the spending and regulatory roles of the government...
Robert K. Wasinger '94, chair of AALARM's presidential council, says the group has about 50 members, and engages in postering and debate to alert the campus to a "large silent conservative minority" that deserves fair consideration...