Cooke's writing is so sensuous and alert that it would be easy to miss the novel's symbolic qualities.
By studying lightning activity in Hurricane Irene, the company predicted on Aug. 24, when the Atlantic Seaboard was still on high alert, that it would not be as severe as initially anticipated because the electrical activity had already moved from the center to the edge of the storm.
To that end, Mr. Hinckley said the state would issue a regulation alerting the homes that it would strictly enforce the 1994 law on reporting deaths.
Support for imprisoning people without charge dropped considerably thanks to his campaign alerting the public that it would give permission to the police to hold the innocent at will.
Anything even vaguely interesting causes an amiable crowd to gather; I think of leaving my bag in the street, to cause a terrorist alert, but realise that it would be gently interviewed as to where it's from and can we get a picture with it?
TRUSTe said last week that it would alert all 1,300 of its members that they must include in their posted privacy policies disclosures of any contracts with third parties that could track the members or gain access to their personal data.
The Rapaport Diamond Trading Network, which says it has listings of more than 700,000 individual stones with asking prices of $4.9 billion, issued an alert Monday warning traders that it would not allow the sale of diamonds through its site that were mined in the Marange fields of Zimbabwe.
Before a raucous crowd in the Roslyn High School auditorium Thursday night, the school board announced that it had accepted the resignation of Frank A. Tassone, the district superintendent, and that it would alert state officials to possible misconduct by Dr. Tassone.
