Word: alertness
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...abruptly withdrew. Shielded by his bodyguards, an enraged Shevardnadze escaped the raging crowd, only to find the streets outside packed with some 30,000 protesters screaming for his resignation. Escorted to safety by police, he declared a state of emergency and placed the military and security forces on high alert. Shevardnadze accused his opponents of mounting a coup - a charge Saakashvili denied. But late Saturday night, many of his supporters remained inside the parliament building. To compound the confusion, another opposition leader, former Speaker Nino Burjanadze, appeared to proclaim herself interim president, thanking the police and military for "keeping...
...soldiers of the 1-505 are on the alert for people like Ahmed at all times. Bear and his colleagues patrol the streets and highways around Fallujah and try to provide security for convoys whenever soldiers travel to another base. In September, Bear was in the last humvee of one such convoy crossing a bridge over the Euphrates when a roadside bomb blew up in front of him. The convoy stopped and within seconds was taking light arms fire from three directions. "We did what we are supposed to: we all faced out, said, 'This is my wedge...
...regulate that? For one thing, as with last year's corporate accounting scandals, boards of directors will get closer scrutiny. Congress is considering a bill that would tighten board oversight of mutual-fund managers and increase the number of independent directors, including the chairman. Spitzer says that an alert board of directors can easily detect market timing using public information about the fund's trading volume, and would never allow fund executives to trade their own funds against the interest of shareholders, as the chairman of Strong Funds is accused of doing. (Richard Strong has said he will reimburse...
...MIDSHIPMAN HOLLOM (SPOILER ALERT). In the book he doesn't commit suicide but is presumed killed by a hand with whose wife he was having an affair...
Despite an effort by the new Office for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response last Monday to alert students to a rash of Rohypnol poisonings, the e-mail warning only trickled out to students through a variety of House lists and did not reach one House...