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Word: wakeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worth of stock in Citibank and Manufacturers Hanover Trust in 1976. The two banks are among the handful of major U.S. banks that loan money to the South African government and help South African get loans from other countries. Shields sold the bank stock this year in the wake of campus protests over Harvard's holdings in banks giving money to the South African government. Although the official explanation was that the decision was "purely financial", the timing of the transaction caused some to doubt the explanation...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Tinker to Evers to Chance: Harvard Makes Investment Decisions | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...federal pay raise if he is to have any hope of getting unions in the private sector to take his pleas for wage-price restraint seriously; federal workers are widely believed to be overfed and underworked. And the threat of escalating wage demands has become very real in the wake of the boost in pay and benefits-estimated as high as 39% over three years-that the White House swallowed as the price of ending the coal strike. Teamster President

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter Takes On Inf lation-At Last | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...point, but they settled at a 32 cadence and stroke Cynthia Strong kept the boat steady and smooth through the middle part of the course. A power-ten just before the halfway mark picked the boat up, as B.U. continued to fall farther and farther back in Radcliffe's wake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Crews Smoke B.U. in Season Opener | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Tuesday April 11, Giorgio Napolitano, leader in the Italian Communist Party will speak on the political and economic crisis in Italy in Emerson 105 at 8 p.m. In the wake of the recent kidnapping of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro and other acts of violence by terrorists (or freedom fighters, depending on your perspective), the talk should be tinged with a measure of emotion and immediacy...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Categorically Imperative? | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...weeks, where on the 23rd you can be lulled into blissful sleep by Gordon Lightfoot. If you stay in your seat, your REMing won't be disturbed by Art Garfunkel, a surefire sedative who'll be onstage a mere 48 hours later. That's if the roadies don't wake you between shows...

Author: By Laura J. Levine, | Title: No Moped Jokes This Week | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

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