Word: alerting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Although the emergency plans are not specific to the war in Iraq and include responses to crises such as power outages, Lichten said that he did take yesterday’s heightened alert into consideration in his presentation...
...Emergency Preparedness at Harvard,” a link on Harvard’s home page to a site that contains information about the war and the campus, will be periodically updated while the nation is on alert...
...When the second SCUD alert of the day came a little later in the morning, soldiers still put on their protective masks, but that seemed the only concession they were willing to make to the impending threat. Troops still headed for the bunker, but most now strolled rather then sprinted. Some did not even do that. Soldiers who waited in long lines to use phones to call home were loathe to head for bunkers and lose their position. Other soldiers, who had waited upwards of an hour to get into the post exchange appeared upset that the clerks...
...last SCUD alert of the day came while hundreds of soldiers were eating in the mess tent. About half of the soldiers left on their own, but the rest had to be ushered away from their chicken dinners by the non-commissioned officers. Eventually, most of the soldier left for the nearest bunker, except for one who resisted all entreaties to leave and continued to eat his meal. "Dinner is the one meal of the day that should be eaten in a dignified way," he said, "And I refuse to be rushed...
...unless absolutely necessary." Taiwan followed suit. Thailand's Health Ministry said it would require passengers embarking from those places for Thailand to undergo preboarding screening. "This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide threat," said Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, director general of WHO, which last Wednesday issued its first global alert in 10 years. "The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread...