Word: alertness
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Several nearby residents, including members of the community group, North Cambridge Toxic Alert Coalition (NCTAC), however, charged that not enough tests had been run and that they had been unable to get results from the agencies named...
...capital, dozens of Soviet-made T-55 tanks clattered into defensive positions. Antiaircraft crews manned their batteries, while zealous neighborhood defense committees scurried to dig air-raid trenches. Some 20,000 volunteer coffee pickers were reassigned to local militia units as the Sandinista government announced a "state of alert" affecting the country's 100,000-member military and security forces. For the third time in two years, the Sandinistas were loudly convinced-or so they said-that U.S. troops were about to invade their soil...
...IMPORTANT HEALTH WARNING TO WOMEN USING AN I.U.D., proclaim the austere but imposing ads currently appearing in newspapers and magazines. The $4 million media blitz by the pharmaceutical maker A.H. Robins of Richmond represents one of the most extensive product-warning campaigns in history. The company is attempting to alert women in the U.S. who are still using the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device. Produced from 1970 to 1974, the I.U.D.s have been blamed for thousands of cases of severe pelvic infections, sterility and other maladies. By last week at least 400 women had followed...
Hunting season keeps Madison on the run, working twelve hours a day and often at night. Acting on tips, Madison checks up on hunters who may have killed more than the annual limit of one deer and one elk; he is also on the alert for out-of-staters illegally using cheap resident hunting licenses. Once at a road check he arrested some men from Kansas after finding two illegal elk concealed behind a false wall in their camping trailer. Their fines totaled $2,400. They paid cash: 24 $100 bills...
...candidate is much good at it, at least by the standards a coach of formal debates would apply. The rules for judging a TV political debate are of course different. Says one candid presidential aide: "Reagan delivered a couple of good one-liners, stayed close to the podium, looked alert and had a better camera angle. The conclusion is that Reagan won the debate." The adviser's own verdict is somewhat different: "The most interesting thing is how little these debates tell us about which candidate would be the best President...