Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When hundreds of Baltimore steelworkers are laid off from their assembly line in the winter of 1983, however, the comfort abruptly collapses, leaving a wake of rage. Some blame the Japanese or the Government; all confront the terrifying reality that they have what are euphemistically called "nontransferrable skills." At first, hard-drinking Red Baker, former high school basketball star now turning 40, buries his fear. Each day he sees Wanda, his wife of 19 years, off to her waitressing job, and plays one-on-one basketball with their teenage son Ace. "Act like a family man," he tells himself, "keep...
...wake up in a cold, dank cell, tied to a chair. A hot light is shining in my face, blinding me, scoring me. "He's awake," someone snickers, "Who's got the cattle prod...
Fortunately, I usually wake up at this point, but I am still left haunted by that question, "Why don't people get in volved here...
...natural gas pipeline industry is now experiencing a flurry of mergers in the wake of congressional deregulation of its business. Only two months ago, two other companies, Coastal and American Natural Resources, agreed to join forces and form an 18,300-mile pipeline system that will be the second largest in the U.S. Wall Street energy analysts believe that the Reagan Administration, which has been receptive to big mergers, will let both deals go through...
...said Linh, left in its wake "a million unemployed and a large contingent of prostitutes, drug addicts, vagabonds and hooligans." Ten years later, he claimed, "the reactionary and depraved neocolonialist culture, which has spoiled so much of our youth, remains our most acute and persistent danger...