Word: slumberous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that has been in development for the past decade: "This is not so much a technological breakthrough as it is a political coup by Jack Smith that caught the entire industry off guard. It may be a sign that GM is ready to shake off some of its marketing slumber of the past four years and is ready to aggressively take on industry leaders such as Chrysler." With a limited range of under 90 miles, the car is still a long way from being a practical vehicle for the long-distance drives in the California market. It's main purpose...
...continually and blatantly ignores the thoughts, questions and actions of its students. It happens that the administration has finally ignored the one student group with the power and membership to oppose them. They have awakened the sleeping lion of student power, and we will not easily return to our slumber. Progressive Action Network
...just a few well-chosen close friends, most of them wives of current or former leaders of the defense or national-security apparatus: women married to men who can't talk about their work. When Colin retired, these wives got together and threw a bash for Alma--a slumber party with no husbands allowed...
After a long slumber, it appears that the Harvard campus is waking up from its apathy. The Yard is alive with the sound of vigorous debate, which should be music to the ears of those who want their college to be a vibrant intellectual environment in which students are not afraid to disagree with one another...
...this respect every event is a historical singularity. But cracks in a world which we must strive to make perfect surround us. And not just cracks, but major breaches of ethics and humanity. The enduring power of the Holocaust is its ability to wake us from moral slumber and prod us into action...