Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...further agree that the college should more actively alert students to potential dangers. The current programs do emphasize the threat of property crime over that of personal crime. The college has been reluctant to adopt scare tactics which would hurt Harvard's image and drain its admissions pool. However, the "it can't happen to me" syndrome cannot be blamed entirely on college policies...
...entered a freshman suite through an unlocked fire door and harassed a freshman woman, saying. "You have nice legs... How do you know whether we're good guys or rapists?" and so on. It was 2 a.m. Even though a special effort had been made this year to alert freshmen to security hazards, these students were not concerned enough about security to check their doors at night...
...they arrived in Washington last week, Reagan's transition monitors were on the alert for signs of such chicanery by an outgoing Administration as transferring political appointees to the career civil service rolls. Carter's aides promptly pledged they would do nothing of the sort. Watson ordered action on "all major policy questions" deferred until the new Administration takes over...
...Orleans, the Ochsner Foundation Hospital has counted 41 injuries from barroom broncos since Aug. 1. Most victims come in with bruises, sprains and lacerations; one ex-rodeo rider broke his thumb. Faced with an epidemic, the Ochsner staff is compiling data to alert other doctors to "urban cowboy syndrome...
Police kept the courtroom under heavy security to prevent any recurrence of the disruptions which had taken place earlier in the trial. State authorities have put police and national guard on alert, but no disorder resulting from the verdict was reported...