Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. But increasingly -- and especially during the ratings-sweeps months of November, February and May -- they are becoming little more than extensions of the network prime-time schedule. Stories that spin off network programming have been around for years, but now they are a depressing cottage industry. Networks alert stations to promotable programming and suggest possible tie- ins; stories done by one station are fed to a central network clearinghouse so that other affiliates can pick them up. The line between news and entertainment continues to fade...
...walls, breaking windows, ! nudging, nudging, as though moving the building would move those inside. "This is not an assault!" agent Byron Sage cried over the loudspeakers. "Do not shoot. We are not entering your compound." Ambulances waited a mile back; the local hospital, Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, was on alert. But no one was supposed to get hurt. "You are responsible for your own actions," agents called out. "Come out now and you will not be harmed." Do not fear what you are about to suffer . . . Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life...
...team leader told Time's Elaine Shannon, "we had run out of other plans." To an impatient audience, it may have appeared that all the officials had done for 51 days was stand and wait and watch. But members of the hrt, especially the snipers, had been on constant alert and were wearing down. "My very first concern was that the Davidians would exit the compound with a child in one hand and an AK-47 in the other," Coulson says. "The only civilian unit that can eliminate the subject without eliminating the child are hrt snipers. They...
...social factors, found that students who were more physically mature chose to go to bed later than those just entering puberty. The same students also slept later on weekends than their prepubescent peers. The conclusion: puberty's biological changes may trigger an adjustment in kids' internal clocks, keeping them alert till the wee hours. Next hypothesis: it's hormones that make teens gab endlessly on the phone...
...Winston's 9,000-lb. 40-ft.-long Tyrannosaurus rex model. "It was the closest I've ever been to a live dinosaur," he avers. He was standing a few feet from the resting T. rex when its head jerked up with startling speed and swung back and forth, alert and lifelike. "It came up real fast, its eyes dilated, its skin was twitching. When you see it, it doesn't take much imagination to get beyond the fantasy. I jumped about 10 feet backward...