Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would go a whole day without fresh air--waking up, taking notes, eating lunch, watching "All My Children," writing, eating dinner, writing, falling asleep...
...served as deputy to Zbigniew Brzezinski on President Carter's National Security Council, and on Wall Street, where he is a board member of the Oppenheimer investment firm. At times, Aaron can get carried away with brand names, as when he notes that a character was able to fall asleep on a plane "despite a monster roar from the four Rolls-Royce SNECMA Olympus 593 jet engines." But he manages to keep his plot shifting as fast as the ticks in the price of a takeover stock...
...biggest thing is you plain get tired," soccer Captain Robert Bonnie '89 says. "You come home from practice and want to relax, but you know you need to work. You try to study and you fall asleep...
...they deserve some recognition for their redemption. "We're trying to break the cycle of you get up, you go to work, step over a homeless person on the way to the subway, go to the gym, go to the sushi bar, go home and fall asleep," says Kenneth Adams, executive director of New York Cares, a sort of charitable clearinghouse for yuppies that has recruited 600 young volunteers to tutor dropouts, serve in soup kitchens, renovate housing and visit the elderly. "The Me generation is dying," says Adams, "and New York Cares is one example...
...agonize a lot. I have known individuals who made a big decision and never gave it another thought. I don't. When it's a big issue, I don't sleep soundly. I remember Gordon Cooper falling asleep while in the capsule waiting for lift-off. Now that's real class. When he blasted off, his pulse went to 70. I can get mine to 90 just thinking about...