Radio-full classrooms.Radio warnings of an impending im·pend intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends 1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending. 2. storm can save lives, or at least limbs. So the Homeland Security Department There were gaps in the U.S. system for detecting and deterring terrorist acts in the homeland. That became clear September 11, 2001. The Department of Homeland Security is the george w. bush administration's plug for those gaps. has decided to provide $5 million to ensure short-range radios are in every public school, according to boston.com. The National Weather Service, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Noun 1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and , operates more than 950 short-range radio stations. It was initially designed to deliver weather warnings, but now it covers terrorism, abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point children and derailed trains carrying toxic materials. Weather experts will assist school officials in how best to use the radios. NOAA pointed out that more than 10,000 major thunderstorms, 2,500 floods and 1,000 tornadoes hit the U.S. every year, along with hurricanes. |
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