Word: alertness
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...they hear a most unusual reply: "Corruption hot line." It is not a wrong number, nor is the businesslike voice on the receiving end peddling tips on how much the local health inspector will take to overlook the roaches in a restaurant. The phone is manned by an alert agent of the FBI, who listens with poised pencil to any caller's allegation that local officials are crooks...
...midst of great national worry, the quality in the presidency that helps keep a beleaguered nation together is the character of the man we glimpse in the White House. Over these past decades some of our Presidents have had more than others. We have not always been alert to those who have had outstanding characters, and sometimes we have been fooled by those who did not have the depths of character we thought they had. Character has come in different sizes and shapes, and some Presidents seemed to have enlarged it as time went on, while others have appeared...
...regular publication of Seventh Sister, a newspaper focusing on women at Harvard/Radcliffe, would be the first step toward an alliance of women's groups on campus. As a central source of activity on women's activity here, RUS would alert undergraduates to available activity and support relevant to their lives as women students...
That state reached a new height last week as the Nicaraguans watched Operation Big Pine taking place across the border. Claiming that Big Pine was the prelude to a major U.S.-backed invasion of Nicaragua, the Sandinista government called a full-scale alert in five frontier provinces. Green-uniformed guardsmen scanned border outposts for signs of more incursions of the kind that occurred at Bismuna...
...concerned not with military plans or industrial blueprints but with political information that can help the Kremlin zero in on targets of opportunity abroad. The Soviets may not be the initiators of global unrest, but they do their best to exploit it. KGB agents posted in the Third World alert Moscow to signs of political turmoil that could be fanned into "wars of national liberation." It is difficult to determine how critical a role KGB intelligence plays when the Politburo decides which rival political faction to back in a regional conflict. But it may have been because of such careful...