Word: alertness
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...Both countries described their actions as routine, but the activity fed speculation about possible retaliation for the suicidal attacks against the U.S. Marine compound in Beirut* and an Israeli military base in Tyre. In response, Syrian President Hafez Assad placed his country's armed forces on alert too, including the calling up of an estimated 100,000 reservists. Washington and Jerusalem both publicly assured Assad that they had no intention of attacking Syria, but a suspicious Assad surely noted that the U.S. and Israel had agreed to forge closer strategic ties and that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir would...
With more and more homes empty during the day because both parents are at work and children at school, telephone manufacturers believe a variety of emergency and remote feature.8 will be hot sellers. AT&T offers a fire-alert system linking smoke alarms to phones that will dial two numbers when smoke is detected ($199 a system, $29 a link). A pocket-size medical transmitter ($49) alerts a unit ($199) that dials up to two numbers if a patient needs immediate attention. Gulf + Western's Sensaphone ($250) monitors room temperatures, sound levels and electrical systems. If a room...
...wires led to fire extinguishers--stolen from MIT, incidentally--filled with yellow paint. They were triggered by mousetraps that the wires connected to some benches and an endzone. Had it not been for some alert groundskeepers and the Cambridge bomb squad, the paint, when released, would have resulted in a huge, jaundiced "Y" appearing on the turf...
...memorable two minutes and 46 seconds the Crimson actually had the advantage. While Blair was facing a barrage of shots from seemingly every collegiate all-star he faced last season at one end. Olympic team netminder Marc Behrend grew bored at the other. He looked less than alert when Harvard's Tim Smith drove a slapper that trickled through his goalie pads and sat on the goal line long enough for Phil Falcone to nudge...
...Ambassador to NATO, as far away as possible from the gathering storm. "He was a cool and careful planner," noted Speech writer Robert Hartmann, who tussled with him for influence at the Ford White House. "As a politician, he recognized and respected fate; as a wrestler, he was ever alert for an opening to take fate by the forelock...