Word: alertness
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...Ankara at which his usually stony face fairly beamed with satisfaction. He defended the exercise off Libya as a simple assertion of "traditional maritime rights," but later described the action as "blowing the whistle" on Gaddafi. Shultz was one of the first U.S. officials affected by a stepped-up alert against potential Libyan terrorist reprisals. When he left Ankara for Athens, his Boeing 707 was escorted by a team of Turkish, Greek and U.S. jets...
Find a niche and fill it, experts advise entrepreneurs. That is exactly what Michael Eckstein, a former health-care executive, and Ian Sharp, a computer- software designer, did. Their Physician's Alert compiles lists of people who have filed medical-malpractice, product-liability and personal-injury lawsuits. Customers, primarily doctors, pay annual membership charges of $150 for access to the lists...
Though consumer advocates complain that the service creates a blacklist, Physician's Alert insists that its customers merely want to be cautious in treating people who might sue. Says Eckstein: "We know of no instance in which a patient has been refused care...
...many cities last week, motorists must have felt as if they were on a nostalgia trip. At Alert service stations in the South, dealers were selling unleaded gas for as little as 87.9 cents per gal. and throwing in a car wash to boot. Downtown Standard Service in Denver offered unleaded for 85.9 cents per gal., down from $1.19 in mid-February. Some Houston dealers chopped the price of regular, which was as high as $1.24 last month, down to 69.9 cents...
...that provides treatment referral and information. He said that he had been up for three days straight snorting cocaine and that he was scheduled to fly a passenger jet to Europe that night. He was feeling exhausted and paranoid, he confided, but was sure he could stay awake and alert if he just kept taking drugs. "Call in sick and get some sleep," urged the hot-line counselor. The counselor, who never found out what the pilot finally decided to do, says that such calls are not unusual...