Word: alerting
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Meagher was now on the alert and started checking out cautionary websites to which his roommate directed him. He continued to meet with Zilman and Hrnicek, who gave him assorted religious books to read, but he was more skeptical. “Now I was being a proverbial thorn,” he says. When he asked his friends what would be required of him if he joined the church, “They danced around [the answer] quite...
...FM’s beleaguered proofer, he serves as the Crimson news executive responsible for controlling the magazine’s obsession with Jay-Z-derived slang. He can be reached at dnewman@fas.harvard.edu. As this issue went to print, Shelley finally e-mailed Dave back—to alert him that she had received an unintended e-mail from FM compers seeking reporting advice for an upcoming story. Score...
John Reid, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, flew back from America after the raid to declare a breach of national security. Such a high state of alert is justified, he says, because of the important nature of intelligence work. Reid told Time that in the past year at least three "potentially disastrous terrorist attacks have been thwarted" by Special Branch and other agencies. Critics say there may be other reasons. Intelligence agencies in Northern Ireland have always bent the law, but there are persistent suggestions that they routinely broke it - even to the point of murder...
Homeland security is about to get colorful. Next week the White House is planning to announce a multihued threat-warning system designed to alert the public and help guard against terrorist attacks. Starting with green--the most relaxed status--the system assigns blue, yellow, orange and red as the danger increases and offers guidelines on how to respond to each level. When U.S. intelligence receives reliable information about a new threat, Director Tom Ridge's Homeland Security Council will huddle to determine which hue fits the situation. The color wheel is designed to provide some context to what have...
...alert the reader to these facts not to “scare” readers who support reproductive rights. Indeed, one of the problems with the abortion debate as it is currently framed is that both sides use rhetoric designed not to reach a middle ground, but to draw their own adherents to further extremes. Thus anti-abortionists use phrases like “baby-killers” while pro-choice activists dub anyone opposed to abortion a “right-wing religious nut.” Even without this irresponsible rhetoric, it is most likely impossible to have...