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...road to Brussels was never going to be easy for Turkey, given such problems as its human rights record, its use of the death penalty, the Kurdish conflict and the military's role in the political sphere. Still, last week's events were a wake-up call to the politicians that they have little alternative but to press forward-and that failure to do so will be mercilessly punished by the markets. An unstable Turkey is bad for everybody...
...Bilham: It's a wake-up call. A moderate quake like this can be a very helpful reminder that there's worse to come...
...nothing else, the tough loss to Clarkson on Friday was a wake-up call that the Crimson heard loud and clear. Realizing that the fate of its season hung precariously in the balance, Harvard reversed its downward spiral and propelled itself past ECAC favorite St. Lawrence...
...granted last month seem to embody this "favor for access" exchange; and while it would be naive to believe there is some way to completely eradicate this sort of behavior in the government, it would similarly be folly not to have Clinton's most recent actions serve as a wake-up call...
School committee member Alfred B. Fantini calls the test scores a "wake-up call" and says he is frustrated that, despite vast amounts of data and resources committed to lowering class size and hiring teachers aides, test scores continue languishing. Cambridge has the highest per-pupil spending in the state--nearly $15,000 per student--but the money is not yielding results...