Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOSCOW--The United States and Russia, in a first step toward a joint defense system, agreed yesterday to set up an early warning center to alert them to ballistic missile attacks, U.S. officials said...
...critical social contract between manufacturers, regulators and the public seems to be unraveling. "I just don't trust the drug companies as much as I once did," says New York City real estate agent Peggy Mathews. "Halcion and silicone implants stand out like beacons, putting us all on the alert." She has reason to worry, says Dr. Sidney Wolfe, a consumer activist who heads Public Citizen's Health Research Group. "The heart of the problem is the dangerous amount of control the industry has over testing. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands injured because data have been falsified...
...suites of a vast array of chiefs of state and foreign ministers. It has become the common frame of reference for the world's power elite. Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev, George Bush and Saddam Hussein -- the headline sparring partners of the year just past -- are all alert watchers. What a computer message can accomplish within an office, CNN achieves around the clock, around the globe: it gives everyone the same information, the same basis for discussion, at the same moment. That change in communication has in turn affected journalism, intelligence gathering, economics, diplomacy and even, in the minds...
...alert signal has been sent loudly and unavoidably to those opposed to statehood. It remains on their hands to listen to the voice of history and adapt their expectations to reality. They can either resign themselves to the notion that the needy pockets of the island's poor are mightier than their hearts, or they can refuel the struggle for the defense of our national identity and right to self-determination. The hope of Puerto Rico lies in their ability to look intimidatingly at the eyes of fear--and defeat it at its own game...
Fuchida's surprise attack lasted only about half an hour. Then, after a short lull, a second wave of 171 more planes roared in. By now the Americans were on the alert and firing at anything in sight. Twenty planes flying in from maneuvers with the Enterprise came under heavy American fire; two were shot down...