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...1950s. Network TV, of course, is still capable of linking the nation as no other medium can, and the next Dallas or All in the Family might be just around the corner. But more likely, before that new Field of Dreams appears, the networks will face a lot more sleepless nights...
...with pledges to transfer power to a civilian government. But the timing remained vague, and the future role of the military was anything but clear. Although junta leader General Saw Maung announced that he would cede control "to the largest party," there were enough caveats to leave the opposition sleepless. First a constitution must be drafted, a process that diplomats warn could take as long as three years. And, Saw Maung cautioned, whoever threatens the protection of "national unity will not be tolerated...
...heading for a fall. "They are not going to approve our bid," the RJR Nabisco president told TIME in an interview five days before his board of directors decided the giant company's fate. His foreboding was on target. On the night of Nov. 30, some 30 sleepless hours after the official bidding deadline had passed, the RJR directors named the winner in the biggest takeover wrangle in history. It was not the company's , president...
...after he barely scraped by in third place, Dukakis sat in his hotel suite munching on cold cuts. Most staffers had repaired to the crowded bar, leaving only a small coterie with the candidate, who had discarded his ever present coat and tie. His wife Kitty, exhausted from a sleepless night, had kicked her shoes off and yearned for bed. But top aides were troubled. They blasted Dukakis for failing to define himself. "Governor, you never gave the people of Iowa a chance to know who you are," an observer recalls saying. Then, in a harangue laced with expletives, they...
However, about 8% to 12% of women who give birth suffer a blacker torment and become seriously depressed for months. They undergo mercurial mood swings, lose their appetite and go sleepless for nights on end. Plagued by thoughts of ; suicide or fantasies of killing their baby by dropping it down the stairs, burying it in the backyard or cutting it up with a kitchen knife. "These are invasive, terrifying ideas that can drive them crazy," says Psychiatrist Ricardo Fernandez, of Princeton, N.J. "A lot of women have a tremendous amount of guilt and shame because of these thoughts...