Word: alerting
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...probably inspect clean-up work in New Orleans and visit organic farms near San Francisco. No remark, no camera angle that can be nailed down in advance has been left to chance, but the tabloids sending their reporters on his plane (at $11,000 apiece) are on high gaffe alert. Will Charles, who asked 12 years ago, "How can any realistic person not take the threat of global warming seriously?" and intends to raise the issue privately with Bush, signal the slightest flicker of frustration with the President in public? Will someone, somewhere hold up a sign that implies that...
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What makes blogs so effective? They're free. They catch people at work, at their desks, when they're alert and thinking and making decisions. Blogs are fresh and often seem to be miles ahead of the mainstream news. Bloggers put up new stuff every day, all day, and there are thousands of them. How are you going to keep anything secret from a thousand Russ Kicks? Blogs have voice and personality. They're human. They come to us not from some mediagenic anchorbot on an air-conditioned sound stage, but from an individual. They represent--no, they...
...have repeatedly commented, the costs for textbooks, course packs, and sourcebooks are more outrageous than ever, for a variety of reasons. It’s only fair that students should be allowed to voice their discontent over high costs associated with particularly pricey courses. This evaluation would alert teaching staffs who might not otherwise be aware of the problem that their course materials were unpalatably expensive...
...declaration of crisis. Last I checked, a crisis was a serious and very pressing problem that demands immediate attention—and honestly, what have we really learned from the Isis emails that calls for such concern? That girls sit around and talk about one another? Someone please alert the New York Times. For all of the insipid chin-stroking and pontificating over these past few days about final clubs and their elitism, one would think it was a new problem. Alas, final clubs in general have been operating more or less under the same system from the eighteenth century...