Word: alertness
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...detectors are wired directly to the Cambridge Fire Department and would immediately alert officials there in case of fire...
...other words, as Hart pointed out during the Senate debate, immigration is both a domestic and a foreign policy issue. Washington should undertake cooperative efforts with other governments to curb excessive immigration. For example, even S. 2222 could have included a joint U.S.-Mexican education program to alert Mexicans to the proposed user fees. Beyond this, the U.S. government should support a greater role for developing countries in IMF decisions so that they may join in developing alternatives to the harsh "adjustment" program. The U.S. should also support political changes that are likely to end human rights abuses--like those...
...body is superb as a functioning instrument to accomplish physical feats." Deb bie Allen, who plays a dance teacher and serves as choreographer on the NBC-TV series Fame, sees dancing as "a precision art. Doing the things your body might not want to do keeps your mind alert and elevated." And, as Choreographer Patricia Birch (Grease) notes, "other people are admiring dancers' bodies to the point of emulating them. Muscles have become the status symbol of fitness...
...Salt River area, and the Wasatch Front in Utah is the scene of drug feuds, arson and marauding motorcycle gangs. On a single summer day in Yellowstone National Park, when as many as 30,000 people visit natural wonders like Old Faithful, Park Service officers must stay on the alert for violations that range from speeding to burglarizing parked campers. Says Chief Ranger Thomas Hobbs "You learn that not only nice guys travel...
...Irish terrorists, $3.5 million has been spent on electronic beams, microwave barrier fences, closed-circuit TV, remote-controlled locks, reinforced doors and other security measures at Buckingham Palace. Yet Fagan was able to move about at will. The worst failings, however, were human ones. "If police officers had been alert and competent," said Dellow's report sharply, "Fagan would have been apprehended well before he got close to the private apartments." Whitelaw called the failure "appalling...