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Subject:Re: "Danger, Danger, Will Robinson!" From:Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- OKVOTECH -dot- ORG> Date:Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:05:00 -0500
Robert Plamondon wrote:
> If you do a man-on-the-street survey, I'll bet that most would
> consider "caution" to be a higher level of threat than "warning,"
(snip)
Funny, that's the exact opposite of what I would say if I were being
surveyed on the street. Perhaps it's because of the immediacy of weather
*warnings* -- tornado warning, hurricane warning, flash flood warning,
etc.
Tracy
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Tracy Boyington tracy_boyington -at- okvotech -dot- org
Oklahoma Department of Vocational and Technical Education
Stillwater, OK, USA http://www.okvotech.org/cimc/home.htm
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