Word: lookout
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...many other voices in his Administration have done. Our terrorist ombudsmen have produced as many catatonic citizens as informed ones, bogging us down in a quagmire of nose swabs, bomb-damage assessments and vague warnings. When one of them says go about your business calmly but be on the lookout for anything suspicious, people lose their calm and flee indoors, where at least they know the NutraSweet is not anthrax. Bush aides admitted last week that briefing saturation had "muddled" their message. Shouldn't those talking agency heads (save Rumsfeld, whose briefings should be replayed in perpetuity on C-SPAN...
...engagement of the law enforcement and intelligence communities of the countries in which al Qaeda operates - many of them in the developing world. Indeed, it's a safe bet that as U.S. military action renders the terrorists' Afghan nests increasingly inhospitable, bin Laden's men will be on the lookout for new sanctuaries in countries where the state is weak and local conflicts offer opportunities to grow a terror infrastructure...
...order to pay off this semester, Murray’s family has sold 40 acres of their soybean farm. Worse still, Murray has watched her parents’ relationship deteriorate. “I’m always on the lookout for marital strain.” Last weekend Murray’s parents drove from Michigan to talk to her. “They told me we have no money left. How can I not work hard in school when my family is losing its farm? I feel like I should be selling my eggs or something. It?...
...anything unusual or alarming, Bush said, in the hope that 280 million investigators have a better chance of foiling the next plot. But we are not trained for this, and an unmarked catering truck on a quiet street prompts three different neighbors to call the cops. "Be on the lookout for mysterious health symptoms," said health czar Tommy Thompson, but who doesn't have those? We were told last week not to panic but to be prepared; to get on with our lives, even though we barely recognize them now that there are F-16s overhead and National Guardsmen...
...streamlined system for enforcing immigration policy, many advocate a closer (and better-funded) working relationship between the counter-terrorism units at the FBI and CIA and INS border patrols. Two of the 19 terrorists involved in the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center were reportedly on a "lookout list" circulating the intelligence community; unfortunately, that list never made it into the hands of the right INS border patrols...