Word: alertness
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...officials so far have no plans to reprimand the pilot for hanging frighteningly close to the commercial plane after it was obvious that it was an innocent craft. To prevent future mishaps, Major General Donald Peterson said the Air Force would give regular training for pilots on civilian Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Systems; would implement new procedures to rely more heavily on radar and contact with controllers in identifying unexpected aircraft, and will conduct a special review of military operations in the region in cooperation with the FAA. While U.S. military craft will continue to guard coastal air space...
...intellectuals are starving to death be a socialist society?" Pyongyang insists that Hwang must have been kidnapped by South Koreans, calling his defection "inconceivable and impossible." The North threatened unspecified retaliation if Hwang was kidnapped, prompting South Korea to put its entire 650,000-member military on higher alert. North Koreans in Beijing are not taking the news any better. When word got out Wednesday, the South Korean consulate was forced to tighten security after 10 North Koreans tried to force their way inside...
...Angeles County sheriff's deputies armed with a search warrant confiscated Moran's computer and files from her home. Moran admitted that she wrote part of the letter but said she thought it would be sent after the civil verdict was reached. Attorneys for the plaintiffs went on red alert, concerned about a possible pernicious attempt by someone to cause a mistrial. According to a source close to the trial, "The longer these deliberations go on, the more danger we have that someone could compromise our jury...
...second goal was a case in point, featuring some of the most crisp, alert passing the has displayed all year...
...late 19th century. He was working in a tradition and adding to it. His borrowings from the past were inspired, not passive or academic. His great model was Veronese--indeed, his contemporaries called him "Veronese reborn"--and other artists influenced him too. He was acutely style-conscious, and as alert as a magpie. But the effect of his work ran on into the future...