Word: alertness
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...Attorney General John Ashcroft has asked American businesses and the general public to be on "high alert," given what he believes to be a heightened risk for more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Police and national guardsmen have been stationed in and around cities, providing increased security to major thoroughfares, bridges and tourist attractions. Ashcroft has also asked the FBI to temporarily suspend investigations into the September 11th attacks in order to focus on taking preventative measures against any imminent attacks...
Another facilitator for the hijackers may have been Luis Martinez Flores. Last week Flores' name appeared on the list that the U.S. government sent to banks inquiring about 21 "suspects." Two addresses for Flores on the bank alert match addresses on the driver's licenses for four of the hijackers, although they likely never lived there...
...watching world, discharged the weightiest responsibility that any President can ever be asked to shoulder. Americans, Bush said, had to prepare for a "lengthy campaign unlike any other we have ever seen." That this will be a real war was made explicit. "I've called the armed forces to alert," said Bush, "and there is a reason. The hour is coming when America will act, and you will make us proud...
...beyond that, there is, I suppose, some kind of ideal reader who understands you more than you do. I had a friend who used to say love poems are addressed to God, that God was the ultimate reader. But, yes, there’s a kind of ultimately alert sensitive reader that one begs for without quite knowing who that reader...
...Guajira,” (though unattributed). “Soul Drive Sixth Avenue” digs a little deeper into funk territory as the keys croak with wah-wah and a baritone sax enters the mix. “People’s Party (Red Alert)” starts to layer the horns over a groovy, yet still camp bassline. One has to admire the talent of the Money man: Although he does recruit various friends on drums and suchlike (including Sean Lennon on electric bass), almost everything is played by himself, from flute to nylon guitar. The album...