Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mugabe promised the Black Zimbebwean working class and peasants various social reforms before his 1980 election. Lower class Blacks rallied behind him to free the country--then called Rhodesia--from the rule of Ian Smith's white-minority government. In the wake of Mugabe's victory, workers pushed for better wages and peasants asked for more equitable distribution of and. After all, that's what they were promised...
...having a sporadic affair with her editor Hildon and trying to figure out why her old friend Les dumped her. Lucy's summer is further disrupted by the arrival of her niece Nicole, a teenage star of the TV soap opera Passionate Intensity. Others follow in Nicole's sudsy wake, including a writer working on a novelization of Nicole's program and an artist making models for a Nicole doll that must go on the market soon, while the original is still famous...
...settle a dispute between his secretary and a decorator over where to put the black leather sofa and chair in relation to his black lacquer desk and bookcase. The firm's partner of two months should be greeting many a new client from behind that desk. For in the wake of his Von Bulow victory last week, commentators across the country are suddenly ranking him among the best U.S. criminal-trial attorneys...
...with New Democracy in disarray and the Communists chastened, Papandreou emerged as a more powerful leader than before. Said a longtime Greek ambassador: "Now he can do whatever he likes with Greece. He may wake up some morning with a headache and decide to take us out of NATO...
English soccer teams were under virtual quarantine last week in the wake of the Brussels rampage by Liverpool fans that left 38 dead, most of them Italian followers of Juventus, a team from Turin. First the Union of European Football Associations banned all English clubs from playing in European championship tournaments for "an indefinite period." Then the International Football Federation excluded English professional teams from international competition. England's national team was exempted, however, enabling it to remain in World Cup competition. English soccer officials called the global ban excessive...