Word: alertly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crimson headline alleges. But if the imagined “strings” are really so worrisome, shouldn’t we expect to learn why these “ties to the Arab world” should be a concern? In all the press articles which aim to alert us to this problem, the most “evidence” that is ever cited is that New York Congressman Anthony Weiner wrote a letter to Harvard President Lawrence Summers “insisting the prince had direct ties to terrorism by virtue of his membership in a government...
...response to the attempted kidnapping, CPD also sent out a community alert slightly different from the one released by HUPD, according to the flyer...
...door-dropped flyer featured a copy of the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) community alert on one side, and on the other, criticized the HUPD advisory for containing “multiple errors”. According to the flyer, the advisory did not include the first three digits of the car’s license number, cited an incorrect year for the Honda sedan, and failed to mention the car had tinted windows...
...time for concentrating. If you are trying to do something serious - writing an article or report, interviewing an applicant for a job, or talking your teenager through a crisis - devote ALL of your attention to that task. So, step away from the cell phone and/or BlackBerry. Turn off the alert sounds on your e-mail. You can always turn on an "away" message that explains you'll be back in an hour, or whenever. Doing this will make a huge difference in your productivity, and you'll also discover just how much you've fallen out of the habit...
...designate it" tactic is a great way to deal with tasks that take too long to do immediately. You just pick a reasonably empty spot on your calendar and schedule the task for that spot - preferably with a reminder alert. Markowitz also suggests bundling non-urgent tasks together at one time, so they don't preoccupy you when you are under the gun. Another tip that's obvious but underused: unsubscribe to useless mailings...