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...just went out there and I kind of figured the team needed a little wake-up call,” Rechul said...
Disabled-rights advocates have long been reluctant to reopen the landmark law, knowing that to do so would subject it to renewed attack by employers. But the Toyota case "should be a wake-up call to Congress," said Chai Feldblum, a Georgetown University law professor who worked for the A.D.A.'s passage, because many workers whom Congress intended to cover can't fit into the shrinking space the court has now created: they must prove they are disabled, in the court's eyes, but also show they are qualified to hold a job with reasonable accommodation. Business cheered last week...
...Harvard, beating Penn at home was not only revenge for last year’s 70-47 drubbing at the Palestra. It was also a wake-up call to the rest of the conference that Harvard won’t likely be living up to its preseason selection as just the sixth-best team in the league...
...Many readers saw the attack as "this generation's wake-up call" to a world that was "unfocused, entrenched in self-serving politics," and that bin Laden "shifted our attention away from our 'Survivor' self-absorbed selves to 'Hey, there's problems in other parts of the world!'" - Some concluded that "we have finally realized we need each other. Badly." ... "While bin Laden may not have changed the world, he made it clear how much the world had changed with out us knowing it." ... "We are, sadly, just as safe as we were on Sept. 10. Now we know...
...What do U.S. couch potatoes get, besides the five extra channels of Baywatch reruns and "The Mummy Returns"? Well, maybe a wake-up call for the cable guy. Vertically unchallenged AOL, for instance, might hurry up with long-promised goodies like (Warner Brothers) movies on demand (in Time Warner cable homes). Or Cablevision, which raised rates in suburban New York by 12 percent last year alone, might slow down on the price hikes. Or they might both sic their lobbyists on Washington - Murdoch will come along for the ride - and bust up the EchoStar-DirecTV union, putting satellite TV back...