Word: alertness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wait for the final results to announce a series of austerity measures last week, including a 28.6% de facto devaluation of the peso, designed to meet International Monetary Fund conditions for a new loan to the heavily indebted nation (total: $25.6 billion). The President also placed Manila on alert and had checkpoints set up in the wake of two fires and the murder of a police general...
Most guidebooks, claims Wurman, "ghettoize information," putting hotels, restaurants, shopping, museums, nightclubs and other attractions in separate sections. By contrast, Access guides note them as an alert pedestrian would, door by door, block by block. To make sites easier to spot on the page, they are color-coded (red for restaurants and nightlife, green for parks, and so on) and profusely illustrated. The exquisitely limned maps are models of graceful lucidity...
...Always alert to what is new, Wurman continues to think originally about how each book should be done. The new guide to New Orleans was published this year in time for the fair. A TV Viewer's Guide to the Los Angeles Olympic Games sold 4 million before it even went to press; Portuguese-and Japanese-language editions of the TV Olympic guide are also available. In the fall a Tokyo sourcebook will be bilingual...
John R. Marquand, assistant dean of the College, says that a "change in consciousness has permeated social relations between men and women. People are more self-conscious about being alert to these issues." Swartz says that when he first came to Harvard. "I wasn't sensitive to or as knowledgeable about harassment." He says he first thought the specific cases were isolated incidents, and that he was surprised by the studies. In the fall, as news director of WHRB, he talked to the staff and told them "to be extra careful of how they treated the compers, that they were...
...scheme allegedly worked out between Brant and Winans in October had at first gone smoothly. The journalist would call the broker from a pay phone near the Journal's newsroom in lower Manhattan to alert him to upcoming stories. For instance, on Oct. 26 Winans told Brant about a negative story that was due to appear on Commodore International, the home-computer maker. By selling the stock short, Clark made a profit of $134,671.79. Not all the trades were successful, though. When a favorable story on oil service stocks, including Schlumberger, failed to move the stock higher, Felis...