Word: warns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Near the gas-monitoring machines and scattered around the bases are live chickens. The machines' sirens will sound if there are chemical agents in the air, but the birds are the backup. Coal miners used canaries to warn against poisonous gases; the desert uses chickens. One air base named its newspaper after its chicken -- Buford Talks -- on the grounds that as long as the bird is squawking, they are safe. When peace comes, the soldiers daydream, they will hold a barbecue...
Police took extraordinary steps to warn addicts, cruising blighted neighborhoods in squad cars. "If you have used this drug," they announced over their loudspeakers, "seek medical attention immediately!" Ironically, these efforts may have led addicts to crave it all the more. "Hard-core users ask how they could get hold of it. They figure those who died made a mistake," says Christopher Policano, a spokesman at Phoenix House, a drug rehabilitation center...
Experts are quick to warn that cancer remains a leading killer of humans, and that the survival rate for metastasized tumors--cancers which have spread through the body--is still pitifully...
While economists of all persuasions warn that there is no such thing as a free lunch, our culture entries us with the promise that "Yes, you can have it all." Boosting stagnant productivity growth, restoring our decaying infrastructure, erasing our chronic fiscal hemhorrage--all of these problems absolutely require that we restrict our consumption and increase savings and investment. In a nation that can't accept that losing weight requires eating less and exercising more, this is a tough sell indeed...
...long as the Pentagon jealously guards bomb-damage reports and pictures. Those that it has released may actually intensify the problem, since people may wonder why, if the missiles are doing their job so well, is the war taking so long? White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater took care to warn last week that "there are going to be enemy victories; there are going to be enemy surprises; there are going to be days when we'll see allied losses." And public opinion had best be prepared for the all but inevitable setbacks...