Word: alertly
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...officials say he was in e-mail contact with Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, the Pakistani techie whose computer contained much of the material about staging attacks with helicopters and limousines?as first reported in TIME?that led to the decision by U.S. officials two weeks ago to raise the alert level at financial institutions in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. Al-Hindi had been sent to the U.S. to case economic and "Jewish" targets in New York City, the 9/11 commission stated in its report last month...
...worried about the safety of Capitol Hill's leaders as well. TIME has also learned that on Friday, July 30, just two days before homeland security Secretary Tom Ridge issued his nationwide alert, a congressional leader was warned by an FBI official that he and the other members could be personally targeted by al-Qaeda in Washington or when traveling around the country. The top leaders of Congress, such as the Speaker, party leaders and whips are already assigned Capitol Police security details to guard them. This is the second time the FBI has warned congressional leaders they could...
...When the flight was an hour from landing in Los Angeles, the FAM informed his superiors and, as is standard procedure, suggested they meet the plane to interview the men. He told the flight attendant to ask the pilot to alert the authorities at Los Angeles International Airport. That was why the flight was met by federal agents and why the men were interviewed but then allowed to leave in time to make their concert. The FAM's take? "I understand why the passenger felt some anxiety about activity on Flight 327," he says. "But that kind of activity...
...Vegas goes right up on the Internet--the way everyone likes it.) The penthouse contains the giant Boom-Boom Room, which has a bowling alley, sauna and--like seemingly every party bus, large hotel suite and open flat space in town--a stripper pole. Las Vegas is on orange alert as far as emergency stripping preparation is concerned...
...Electronics, whose revenues of $36.4 billion are two times as large as LG's, has already hit the U.S. - and scored big successes. LG executives hope that competition from Samsung will make their company stronger. "Their presence as a very strong competitor in our neighborhood has always kept us alert and awake," says LG's Woo. "This has helped us compete in overseas markets as well. I can be more successful with Samsung's success." LG's first crack at the U.S. market ended in disappointment. Beginning in the 1980s, LG sold cheap TVs under the brand Goldstar, after...