Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agree that the best prevention must come from increased awareness and vigilance by the members of the University community. Stevens says that one of the biggest effects Eliot's new electronic security has had on crime prevention is that it constantly reminds residents that they should be "on the lookout" for crime. More and more students admit to feeling "jittery" about the thefts and assaults which have been taking place around them and as a result are far more willing to question strangers and take care to lock doors, cars and bikes. White's assailants were captured even before police...
...bring down the temperatures inside the orbital workshop by changing the ship's angle relative to the sun, the heat again soared to more than 125° (after hovering around 105°). That created fears of additional food spoilage, and the astronauts were warned to be on the lookout for bad odors when they began sampling Skylab's delicacies, which include such items as roast beef, lobster Newburg and Conrad's favorite butterscotch pudding. The space agency was also worried about the buildup of potentially lethal fumes from the decomposition of the heat-sensitive polyurethane foam used...
...even Phnom-Penh is safe. Last January, the Lucky Star was attacked in the harbor by North Vietnamese frogmen using plastique explosives. A month earlier, the Lucky Star's sister ship, the Bright Star, was holed by plastique and sank. Cambodian soldiers routinely stand lookout duty against frogmen, occasionally lobbing grenades off the piers or spraying the water with machine-gun fire. For the crew of the embattled Lucky Star, however, the guards are simply a nuisance. "I wish they would go away," gripes one of the deck crew. "All they do is keep us awake, smoke our cigarettes...
James Vavra, an Illinois game warden, has set up a makeshift defense against the black walnut marketeers. He has organized farmers to be on the lookout for trucks with winches on private property, and to report strange nocturnal sounds to the local sheriff-especially the mmmbrrp of a muffled buzz saw. Last month the system helped catch three thieves in Illinois' De Kalb County. They are now awaiting trial on charges of grand theft, criminal damage to property and criminal trespass...
...down from the Arctic to Antarctica and back again every 103 minutes, the 1,965-lb. spacecraft has been taking as many as 752 pictures of the earth every day; each shot covers a 115-by-115-mile square. Unlike U.S. and Soviet spy satellites, which are on the lookout for military sites, the mission of NASA's first Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS-1) is purely scientific. A direct spin-off of the space agency's active new interest in its home planet, ERTS is now returning dramatically revealing views of the earth...