Word: warns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Save a Life. The victim's parents sued the university, the psychologist and two hospital psychiatrists for $200,000 for failing to warn them or her about Poddar's threat. Alameda County Superior Court found no grounds for the suit, but the state supreme court's new ruling sends the case back to trial. Substance of that ruling: confidentiality between therapist and patient must yield "when a warning is necessary to prevent a violent attack." Moreover, therapists could be liable to civil damages, unless it can be shown that "sound professional judgment" was used...
...gratuitously contributing to bearishness. For the most part, however, the press has avoided wallowing in gloom. Nor have many publications been suffused with optimism-an attitude that most readers would reject anyway now that both Alan Greenspan, the President's chief economic adviser, and their own firsthand experience warn them that harder times are ahead...
...been frantically modernizing their armed forces in the past year and have exchanged vitriolic verbal attacks over a border area in dispute since 1881. A Peruvian armored unit has been reported garrisoned just north of the Chilean border. All this may be nothing more than empty posturing, but observers warn that the rhetoric could create a momentum of its own, ending in hostilities...
...human society. Some 50 ways in which they earn their living are well documented, including guiding, guarding, detecting, rescuing, protecting, defending, often spending and giving their lives in the service of mankind. And millions of families are able to sleep securely knowing that even the smallest family pet will warn of intrusion. Surely they earn their dog food...
...course, don't forget to buy that wool hat. Gerry's right when they warn that 50 per cent of your heat loss is from your head, and a hat is about as good a cap for a leaky head as can be found...