Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heard two loud explosions Dust was everywhere People were running and screaming "save us. A coal cart fell over me," survivor Saban Kardes told The Associated Press from his hospital bed in Eregh, Turkey...
...primary objective in waking alarm-killers is to get them out of bed before they can get to the alarm. Obviously, the first step is to put the alarm out of reach, which over sleepers do in a variety of ways. By far, the most common tactic for setting the alarm out of reach is the across-the-room technique. On a cold winter morning, running across the room to turn off a blaring alarm is stimulating, to say the least. Of course, the morning air can shock your body so that you immediately jump back in bed after shutting...
Those who find this method simply too shocking often try the alternative two-alarm system. This can be modified to meet almost anyone's needs: you need only set one alarm by your bed and the other across the room. The first alarm will wake you without making you get out of bed. Before the second one rings later (at a reasonable time you determine), you will have mentally prepared for it. Even if you fall back to sleep, the second alarm will be less of a rude surprise...
...combined two-alarm and across-the-room method is a solution for many, but some find that if they remain in the same room as their bed, they will inevitably go back to lie down; these people must go one step further, using the two-or-more-alarms method and the out-of-the-room technique. This double-jeopardy system entails setting an alarm inside the room to wake you, and one outside to get you up and away from the bed. Rarely does one use the out-of-the-room method on its own because of the hazards...
...respond to subpoenas from two House subcommittees that had been investigating the Superfund. If she had hoped to receive more sympathetic treatment from the Republican-controlled body, she miscalculated. Republican Senator Robert Stafford told Lavelle sternly that she had "created the impression that your agency may be in bed with polluters." Fellow Republican Senator John Chafee complained that she had been "extremely insensitive" about the appearance of impropriety in her frequent lunches and dinners with chemical-industry officials. Lavelle argued that she was a "saleswoman," trying to persuade corporate executives to go to the bargaining table instead of to court...