Word: alertness
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...zeroes in on one of the red and yellow areas. Then, fiddling with the controls, he orders up another display, showing tiny arrows circling counterclockwise and swirling ever closer in a tightening loop. After checking the coordinates on a map superimposed on his screen, the operator telephones an alert for the threatened area to the National Weather Service: a tornado may be about to strike...
...Balance of Military Power. It is shifting so rapidly against the U.S., said Kissinger, that in a future confrontation "like that in Cuba in 1962 or the Mideast alert in 1973, it will be the Soviet Union which will possess the quantitative superiority in strategic weapons." The danger, he said, "is less an imminent nuclear attack on us than an increased Soviet willingness to run risks in local conflicts." In such cases, said Kissinger, Soviet superiority in conventional arms could no longer be offset by a credible threat of U.S. nuclear retaliation. "The present Administration has compounded the problem...
...random error in the transcription of the cell's genetic message. It can lie dormant for decades before striking, or it can suddenly attack. Once on the move, it divides to form other abnormal cells, outlaws that violate normal genetic restraints. The body's immune system, normally alert to the presence of alien cells, fails to respond properly; its usually formidable defense units refrain from moving in and destroying the intruders. Unlike healthy cells, which stop reproducing after repairing damage or contributing to normal growth, the aberrant cells respect few limits or boundaries. They continue to proliferate wildly, forming...
Required reports were filed on the incident with the NRC, and should have led to a simple warning that would have kept T.M.I.'s operators from misreading the situation two years later. However, that warning was never issued. Now, instead of waiting for such an NRC alert, the industry has set up a new watchdog group, the Nuclear Safety Analysis Center. It will review reports of minor incidents and, if necessary, press for changes in operating practice or equipment design...
...marker, of dubious value. The marker in this case is the horseplayer's six-year-old daughter (ah, so, thinks the alert viewer, past whom no subtlety can be slipped, that's what the film's title means). Sorrowful does not deal in human flesh but just now he is distracted; a dim-witted killer named Blackie (Tony Curtis) is trying to muscle him into investing in a gambling casino...