Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inspect it. But some border-hopping Cessnas can fly to their unloading airstrips and slip out of the U.S. again in half an hour. Even if Air Force radar planes such as the AWACS or E-2C surveillance craft spot the intruders, there is not much time to alert lawmen on the ground, get them to the strip and make arrests before the drug traffickers flee. The cost of keeping an AWACS in the air, moreover, is about $7,500 an hour...
Evans' findings are based on the release in 1986 of a series of research balloons at Alert, Canada, near the North Pole. Scientific instruments aboard the craft detected a significant loss of ozone between January and March of that year. Unlike the Antarctic ozone hole, however, the Arctic crater formed only patchily in 1987 and scarcely appeared at all in 1988. For now, Evans' colleagues have reserved judgment about his discovery until further studies of the Arctic atmosphere can be made...
...I.R.A. claimed responsibility for the attacks and promised more deaths if British troops did not "disengage from Ireland." Meanwhile, Her Majesty's troops were advised by British Forces Radio: "Terrorists only look at you for one reason. Be alert. Stay alive...
...what a flood of taboo thoughts run through one head at these Radical Chic events...But it's delicious. It is as if one's nerve endings were on red alert to the most intimate nuances of status. Deny it if you want! Nevertheless, it runs through every soul here. It is the matter of the marvelous contradictions on all sides. It is like the delicious shudder you get when you try to force the prongs of two horseshoe magnets together... them and us." Radical Chic...
Frazier said it was important to "alert the community to the fact that not only is racism still a problem, but racial violence often follows on the heels of racial attitudes...