Word: alerting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the bombing of the camp in Syria, after an Oct. 4 suicide bomb in Haifa killed 20 Israelis. Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders in Lebanon braced for more attacks, while Melzer and the Israeli soldiers whose base looms above his home went on high alert for attempts to kidnap them from across the border. Sharon himself hinted the raid on the camp, at Ein Saheb, 15 km west of Damascus, may not be the last. "If they don't understand the message," he said, "Israel will ... defend itself whenever [it] is convinced that Syria...
Certainly the change will bring some benefits. UNICCO’s more frequent service will be a welcome improvement over Dorm Crew’s understandable but unpleasant lack of assiduity. Furthermore, UNICCO’s workers alert students in advance of their visits such that they can plan around them—generally not the case with Dorm Crew’s notoriously erratic schedule. Indeed, Dorm Crew should mimic their professional counterparts and establish in the various Houses timetables to which they can remain relatively faithful...
Mocking the color-coded terror alert system, Franken referred to orange—the second-highest alert level—as “the highest level at which we are encouraged to go to the mall...
...falling steadily. In 2001, there were fewer than half as many air-quality warning days across the country as in 1988. Los Angeles has experienced just one Stage 1 ozone warning in the past five years, an incredible decline. During the 1970s, Los Angeles averaged about 100 Stage 1--alert days per year...
...Rangina gets a warm reception at Ghotair's lane. Children playing outside alert their mothers and elder sisters. Clad anonymously in the customary blue-pleated hijab, they head for Ghotair's hut, carrying shawls and tablecloths they have embroidered. Behind the dirty rag that serves as a front door, they give Rangina their work, for which she pays from the ngo's funds. (They are sold through a loose network of friends and family back in the U.S.) "It has changed our lives," marvels Ghotair. "We can get clothes for our children and milk powder for the babies." She points...