Word: alertness
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...card manufacturers have been alert to changes in the American family. Says Richard Connor, executive vice president of American Greetings: "The divorce rate has brought about new families, single fathers and working mothers. These new relationships open up new avenues for card sending." One of Hallmark's Mother's Day cards shows Mom at her office. Both American Greetings and Hallmark have cards with messages to "Mom and Her Husband" or "Dad and His Wife...
...billion, 58,022 lives and, for a while, some of its self-confidence. But ten years after its moment of glory, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam has little else to cheer about. Its army, the world's fourth largest (1.2 million men), remains at war and on alert: 160,000 of its troops are trying to subdue resistance fighters in neighboring Kampuchea, while another 650,000 men keep an uneasy peace along the Chinese border. The relaxed, Westward-looking laissez-faire of the South has yet to be completely assimilated within the socialist puritanism of the North. And despite...
...responsibility of all members of the academic community to maintain an atmosphere in which violations of rights are unlikely to occur and to develop processes by which these rights are fully assured. In particular, it is the responsibility of officers of administration and instruction to be alert to the needs of the University community; to give full and fair hearing to reasoned expressions of grievances; and to respond promptly and in good faith to such expressions and to widely-expressed needs for change. In making decisions which concern the community as a whole or any part of the community, officers...
Meanwhile, physicians became more attuned to the delicate nature of treating patients-whether or not to expose its occurrence to future or current spouses, how to alert authorities about the disease while protecting the confidence of patients, and the very treatment of the afflicted. Because venereal disease might be acquired at the drinking fountain or the public lavatory, or so they thought, physicians quietly suggested caution in personal habits and the control of immorality in the working classes. Exposing all dangers of the disease, physicians suggested that it could be acquired even "within the boundaries of Victorian morality...
Also ready to go to the barricades in support of the Nicaraguan government is U.S. Out of Central America, a socialist organization that publishes a newsletter, Central America Alert, and tries to unite its cause with those of antinuclear, civil rights and feminist operations. Another group, called Madre, the Spanish word for "mother," pairs U.S. day-care centers with schools in Nicaragua, setting up pen-pal relationships between the children. Meanwhile, American parents and teachers send money and medical supplies to their Nicaraguan counterparts...