Word: alertness
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...this is the most remarkable change of all; like adolescents slipping into adulthood, we have stopped demanding immediate answers and begun to accept there are some things we cannot know. Wednesday, an FBI agent told an interviewer he was worried that Americans are suffering from "alert fatigue;" and while that may be true, at least we can say we're still prepared for whatever comes. We're not sleeping much these days, but we're ready...
...thing to become politically active to deploy that Gospel to improve people's lives, another to try to promote a specific religious scenario. Intercessors for America, a 30-year-old prayer ministry, helps keep people politically connected through e-mail alerts and telephone-prayer chains. The June 11 Prayer Alert implored, "Lord, raise up government leaders in Israel, the United States (and worldwide) who will not seek to 'divide the land,' and who would recognize the unique significance of Jerusalem in God's end-time purposes." A refusal to consider Israel's withdrawal from any occupied territory would tend...
...senior lieutenants still at large are on the run, but according to the CIA, they are plotting and sending out orders to a terrorism network that may still number in the thousands. The CTC, fearful of another strike around the July 4 holiday, is "on a heightened state of alert," says Bernazzani. Its members live each day worried that the next attack will come tomorrow...
...make a huge difference," says Margo Hamilton of Curtailing Abuses Related to the Elderly, in Riverside County, Calif. She has seen cases of caretakers of the elderly cheating them financially and even abusing them physically. Abusers succeed, she says, when they can isolate the parent. Kids who are alert and in touch can head off problems...
...problem for Bush, and for Sharon, is that the security situation is once again rapidly deteriorating, and there doesn't seem to be much Israel can do about it. The Israeli government knew Tuesday's bomber was coming, having put their public and their security services on high alert for an attack in Jerusalem. An Israeli police surveillance helicopter was hovering above the bus that exploded Tuesday. Yet none of that was enough to save the lives of 19 innocent Israelis, and Palestinian attacks are as commonplace now as they were before the Israeli offensive that essentially ended PA-control...