Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leaders of Begin's conservative Likud coalition correctly argued that Israel was overdue for an economic cold-water treatment of some sort. In the wake of the 1973 war, Jerusalem's annual balance of payments deficit has ballooned from about $1 billion to $2.6 billion this year, causing total foreign indebtedness to soar to more than $10 billion. Meanwhile, an alarming rise in inflation (40% this year alone) has slowed real economic growth, from a 10% annual average to zero in 1977. Any thought of engineering a turnaround by expanding the Labor Party's elaborate, 29-year...
...critical right of Congress to exercise meaningful oversight of the nation's intelligence community has sustained a serious--albeit hardly fatal--blow in the wake of the administration's decision on Helms, and only a very tenuous silver lining could be discerned as the air cleared in Washington. As part of the bargain with Justice Department officials, Helms agreed to testify fully in any subsequent investigations pertaining to the entire CIA episode in Allende's Chile...
...used to think oil was inexhaustible, remember? We may wake up some day soon to find that the oil cartel has cornered the available water as well...
...Leverett House Committee held an emergency meeting on Wednesday night and recommended that a 24-hour guard be posted in the tower area. In the wake of the meeting, Kenneth R. Andrews, master of Leverett, arranged for the police department to station an additional student security guard near the tower...
Harvard hired Howland's firm in the wake of complaints by the Harvard Police Association that efforts to reorganize the force had greatly lowered the officers' morale. The union refused to bargain for a new contract until the University took steps to solve what it called "the morale question...