Word: alerting
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...through it, we instead have Mr. Ridge. The Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge, likewise is a soft-spoken Pennsylvanian trying to be reassuring yet realistic. He has not had an easy time of it. During last month's orange alert, the fatalistic talk about contingency plans and three days' supplies of water hinted at a message no one would tell Americans plainly: we believe a terrible thing is coming, and we will not be able to stop it. Ridge had a basically Rogersian task - getting Americans to accept a terrible eventuality that they could not prevent. So Homeland Security offered...
...days after 21 people were trampled to death during a panicked stampede at the E2 club in downtown Chicago (see box). As is usually the case, the tragedies were uniquely disastrous, each made more catastrophic by individual instances of horrendous decision making. But with the country already on high alert about the possibility of terrorist attacks against soft civilian targets, the proximity of last week's events added to the sense of insecurity. They also raised new questions about the extent to which safety regulations at the country's nightclubs are going unenforced. Robert Plotkin, president of the National...
...more questions Americans seem to have about it. And one of those questions is whether or not, as Bush argues, the war would make us safer. The poll makes it clear that the President has yet to convince a nation living under an orange alert that waging war would better protect Americans from terrorism. Quite the opposite: 56% said sending U.S. military troops into Iraq would increase the number of al-Qaeda attacks...
Along the Iraqi front, all units have been put on full alert. Just north of the Iraqi-held oil city of Kirkuk, a side road likely to be used by U.S. combat troops is being buttressed with Iraqi tanks, "all camouflaged so only the gun barrels are obvious," says an officer at a nearby Kurdish gun position. In this district around Qurtan Jukoy, the Iraqis have closed many of the smaller roads used by civilians passing between the lines. For more than 10 days, Iraqi engineers have been gouging deep trenches to slow the approach of soldiers...
...brought good news in the form of a personal e-mail from one Harry R. Lewis (bcarroll@fas.harvard.edu) that reads as follows: “Dear Madeleine, I write to encourage you...” Well, I needn’t quote the rest of it. He was writing to alert me to a special privilege I have as an enrolled Harvard College student: the “unique opportunity” to take an online survey, which upon completion will enter me into a random contest for all sorts of neat prizes, like meal tickets and “items...