Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elections or anything. And I made a promise that I would, to the best of my ability, make any decision that had to be made, on the basis of what I honestly believed was right or wrong for the people. I found then, and it continues now, that you sleep very well if you do that. I think what may happen to some people is that when they start thinking ahead and start looking at an issue and a decision as to how it is going to go over politically, that's when I think tension must mount...
...listless Vietnamese "land people," who singly or in family groups bribed their way across Cambodia, which is still occupied by 160,000 Vietnamese troops. Jumbled together inside 27 tents, the refugees each have a coffin-size sliver of space, 6 ft. by 3 ft., in which to rest and sleep. Living conditions for new arrivals are even more crowded: they are housed in a series of bamboo tiers reminiscent of a 19th century slave ship...
With its decision this week to issue $245 million in long-term, tax-exempt bonds, Harvard took a significant sleep toward improving its long-range ability to finance big capital projects, according to financial officials interviewed this week...
...when a G&S company does decide to produce Utopia it should do a little cutting beforehand: two-and-a-half hours of this circuitous fluff could put even the most hyperactive of audience members to sleep. Not only is the production hampered by its length, but also most of the staging proves too distracting for the weak company to support. Noticeably lacking are introductory overtures before either of the acts. Ordinarily such music helps the audience enter into a nineteenth-century frame of mind. Instead, after a brief warm-up, the opera begins with a riotous choral entrance...
...over-looked bunch. No one paid much attention to you as you tossed and turned and fiddled with your radio dial, your depression increasing each time you heard the National Anthem at the close of another station's broadcast day. And then you just lay there and tried to sleep...