Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next step in an alert, involving higher ranking personnel, is a "threat assessment conference." If the threat seems to be a real one, a "missile attack conference" may be called, bringing in the president and all senior Cabinet and 'White House personnel. There has never been a missile attack conference, and no detailed information about who would make decisions in such a situation is available to the public. The number of times the displays have had to be discussed is strikingly large. From January 1979 through June 1980 there were 3703 routine missile display conferences--an average of about...
...entire country to a standstill in half an hour. To prove his point, union members in Bydgoszcz and the neighboring province of Torun called a two-hour strike. As sirens wailed and church bells pealed, 500,000 workers laid down their tools. Solidarity also mounted a national strike alert, meaning that unless the government takes satisfactory action against the Bydgoszcz police the country could be hit by a general strike...
...Baryshnikov, who was in Buffalo with A.B.T., flew back to Manhattan to see his daughter. "She's beautiful," says Lange, 31, of Alexandra, who was delivered by natural childbirth. "I was enormously proud that she came into the world naturally. But then my baby is bright and alert. She made it easy." Lange seemed almost as pleased to talk about her other "first-born": the starmaking role she calls "the first real acting I've done...
...remain basically optimistic. In an historic sense, we are witnessing the unraveling, if you will, of the greatest challenge to the world peace today, and that is the Marxist-Leninist movement. While one can take comfort from this historic reality, one must be increasingly alert...
...national union leaders were having trouble reining in restive local chapters. Even before Kuron's arrest, workers in the textile center of Lodz declared a strike alert over the firing of five hospital employees. On Saturday, Lodz union officials scheduled a series of warning strikes for this week unless the five are rehired. The Solidarity chapter in Plock, meanwhile, prepared to issue a strike alert to protest censorship of their local union bulletin; entreaties from Warsaw union leaders, however, convinced them to hold...