Word: alertness
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...work very hard to keep things secure," Hawkes says. All of the entrances to the tunnels are locked, and alarms on the doors alert personnel in the Science Center control room exactly which doors have been opened so they can go find the intruders...
Proulx (rhymes with true) is 58, a tough, rooted Vermonter. She dropped out of graduate school years ago and fetched up in a bare cabin in the northern end of the state. She and a friend fished, hunted and foraged to feed themselves. Living that way "makes you very alert and aware of everything around you, from tree branches and wild mushrooms to animal tracks," Proulx says. "It's excellent training for the eye. Most of us stagger around deaf and blind...
Please, everyone, strive to help each other! Not to play amateur therapist, but to learn when and how to try to steer someone toward help. Everyone encounters people daily who are silently suffering in ways we may not imagine. We can all be much more alert for warning signs: often changes in sleep patterns, diet and weight, energy levels, and/or mood (`affect'), or perhaps simply the arrival of midterms can indicate some underlying condition which should be addressed...
Publication in The Harvard Crimson of all Harvard Real Estate's building and zoning permits and variances would alert the Harvard community of anything which could affect their quality of life and the integrity of a presitigous educational institution. Had this been policy, perhaps we would have been spared the sight of that gaudy awful sign at Holyoke Center. Vivian Kurkjian Cambridge
...when obliged to search out the right word for an ad or a statement to the press. He is also smart to the point of cynicism, and there are times when there is something almost vulpine in his manner: his eyes are preternaturally bright, his head constantly aswivel, ever alert for prey or peril. But mostly what you sense about him is the loyalty and the passionate convictions of an outsider who has been taken into a club that might never have admitted...