Word: alerting
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This time of year is when you need to be most alert. Heavy retail activity through January brings out the crooks. Keep a sharp eye on your January bills, which may offer your first clues to a usurped identity. Check carefully for unauthorized charges...
...country. A reporter in Kinshasa, capital of the Congo, commented on rumors that King Albert II had fled to the former Belgian colony. A crowd waved Flemish flags behind the live reporter at the Flemish Parliament. The ring road around the capital, Brussels, was blocked, NATO headquarters on red alert, and police controls thrown up along the border between Flemish-speaking and French-speaking regions. A parade of prominent politicians and public figures opined on the grave development, and there was even a report of julbilation among Catalans keen to separate their region from Spain...
...section stays alert, ready to play as soon as the game stops for a whistle. In true Harvard spirit, the low brass especially keeps a keen eye out for the hand of the referee, ready to play the imposing theme from Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” whenever an opposing player takes a trip to the penalty box. Saxophones play a bagpipe tune, and the trumpets break into fanfares from a myriad of classical composers to rouse our team to even greater feats and higher scores...
...question why [UCLA] still had my information,” said a UCLA applicant, Moises H. Gallegos ’10, who ultimately decided not to matriculate at the California university. In response to the news, another applicant, Gideon W. Wald ’10, put out a fraud alert on his credit history and said he plans to take more steps during the winter break. “There’s not much you can do but to take steps to prevent [fraud],” Wald said. According to the e-mail, the hacker exploited a software...
...film is handsomely mounted and well played (particularly by the always magical Binoche--such a wonderfully alert actress), but somehow it never draws one into its schemes. Possibly that's because Minghella (who also wrote the script) has too much on his mind--the costs of urban gentrification, the unhappinesses of migr and bourgeois life. Minghella is a decent-minded filmmaker. And a liberal-minded one too. He wants his characters to emerge morally instructed and reasonably happy. But it's not a lofty goal, and this is a movie that plods while we keep hoping it will soar...