Word: alertness
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...against their country's Marxist-dominated Sandinista government. When the shooting stopped at least eight Indians were dead, according to sketchy local reports, and the Honduran government was enraged at a clear violation of its borders by the Sandinista forces. The ill-equipped Honduran army went on full alert, Honduran troops sped to the trouble zone, and the foreign ministry angrily berated Nicaragua...
Some centers accept adults of all ages. The Sister Kenny Institute in Minneapolis is willing to consider those 18 or older, mobile with the aid of just one person, mentally alert, able to feed themselves, continent of bowel and bladder. A number of centers specialize in patients who need rehabilitation rather than long-term care. Patients at the Georgia Infirmary, Inc., in Savannah, for example, attend therapy classes for seven to 14 weeks, at a cost ranging from $350 to $2,000 a month. Most have been disabled by strokes, arthritis, diabetes or neurological injuries, yet 70% "can live functionally...
...committee's main aim is "to alert the academic community to the situation of human rights and specifically to our responsibility to human rights in Poland," Tymienieckay added. Calling herself "nonpolitical." Tymienieckay said her concern about the Polish situation is that she is of Polish descent and her belief that the Poish crises "goes beyond any political concern. The issue at stake is the human rights of a nation to survive, to have a cultural identity...
...Vice President, is a subscriber. Copies are regularly ordered by Photographer Ansel Adams and Comedian Steve Allen. A minister in Maine claims he is addicted to them, and a Kentucky undertaker listens to them in his hearse. Pilots at Mather Air Force Base at Sacramento tune in while on alert status. Today, thousands of American commuters, determined to put the down time of driving to better use, are discovering the pleasures of loud literature: books transcribed on cassette tapes. A widening range of fiction, poetry, history, biography, language courses and self-help texts is now available for the expressway bibliophile...
...authorized it. Informal cells of worried activists were forming in the capital. One such group was operating out of a bakery in downtown Warsaw. If any of the cell's dozen members failed to show up at least once every three days, the sales clerk was to alert one member, who would pass the word along...