Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flag Gaffe. While Charles retained his princely cool, a personable, polished blend of animation and decorum, Anne was alternately aloof, bored, alert and quizzical, as befits her highly independent character. Aboard the sluggish presidential yacht Sequoia, which can do only nine knots-and whose crew made the colossal gaffe of flying the Union Jack upside down-she asked to transfer to a 60-m.p.h. Coast Guard launch for the Potomac cruise to Mount Vernon. At the Smithsonian, she was intrigued by the astronaut space suits, and asked U.S. Moonman Neil Armstrong: "Is there a danger of a rip?" Replied...
...boosting U.S. industry's productivity. - Establishment within the Government of a Regulations and Purchasing Review Board to study federal regulations and import policies in order to pinpoint where the Government inadvertently acts to drive up costs. - Assignment of the Council of Economic Advisers to prepare a periodic "inflation alert," warning the public which wage or price boosts are inflationary and identifying the industries, though not the corporations or unions involved...
...anti-inflation strategy. Nixon is philosophically opposed not only to mandatory controls, but to any forms of governmental management of a free economy, and has gone out of his way to avoid the arm-twisting tactics of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. His espousal of the "inflation alert," though still far short of the jawboning he abhors, thus represents a cautious step away from a passive posture to an activist presidential role in economic policy. "Now is the time for business at every level to take price actions more consistent with a stable cost of living," said the President...
...Your article on drug laws abroad [April 13] is of great aid to all of us working to alert travelers to the dangers of violations of these statutes. In Spain, which enforces its strict drug ordinances evenhandedly against Spaniards and visitors alike, 14 Americans are now in prison for long terms after conviction on drug counts. 40 more are in jail awaiting trial. I hope that readers will take warning and not react casually to your timely article...
After two days of disturbances and some 150 injuries, leaders of the militant strike coalition at Ohio State University urged non-violence in the continuing strike and picketing at that school. 1800 National Guardsmen remained on alert status last night, with 50 standing guard around university buildings, but the campus remained quiet...