Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added cost and delay is due to improvements made in the Star Wars radar and guided missile control system designed to allow the plane to attack the enemy in darkness and bad weather. Critics question the value of such sophisticated radar, leaving aside its cost, because its use can alert the enemy and spoil any element of surprise. In addition, the Hornet is now overweight by about 1,500 lbs. and has problems accelerating and maneuvering...
...disaster is the one known at first simply as "the man in the water." (Balding, probably in his 50s, an extravagant mustache.) He was seen clinging with five other survivors to the tail section of the airplane. This man was described by Usher and Windsor as appearing alert and in control. Every time they lowered a lifeline and flotation ring to him, he passed it on to another of the passengers. In a mass casualty, you'll find people like him," said Windsor. "But I've never seen one with that commitment." When the helicopter came back...
...against their country's Marxist-dominated Sandinista government. When the shooting stopped at least eight Indians were dead, according to sketchy local reports, and the Honduran government was enraged at a clear violation of its borders by the Sandinista forces. The ill-equipped Honduran army went on full alert, Honduran troops sped to the trouble zone, and the foreign ministry angrily berated Nicaragua...
Some centers accept adults of all ages. The Sister Kenny Institute in Minneapolis is willing to consider those 18 or older, mobile with the aid of just one person, mentally alert, able to feed themselves, continent of bowel and bladder. A number of centers specialize in patients who need rehabilitation rather than long-term care. Patients at the Georgia Infirmary, Inc., in Savannah, for example, attend therapy classes for seven to 14 weeks, at a cost ranging from $350 to $2,000 a month. Most have been disabled by strokes, arthritis, diabetes or neurological injuries, yet 70% "can live functionally...
...committee's main aim is "to alert the academic community to the situation of human rights and specifically to our responsibility to human rights in Poland," Tymienieckay added. Calling herself "nonpolitical." Tymienieckay said her concern about the Polish situation is that she is of Polish descent and her belief that the Poish crises "goes beyond any political concern. The issue at stake is the human rights of a nation to survive, to have a cultural identity...