Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blue Devils did pick up a huge ACC win last Wednesday night in nearby Greensboro, where they defeated Wake Forest, 76-70, in overtime
...institutional wake-up call, rarely pleasant and sometimes unreliable, has become a thing of the past for those equipped with tiny travel clocks. One of the latest: Braun's 3 1/8-in. by 2 1/2-in. voice-deactivated quartz model ($40). A crisp "Shut up!" silences the alarm for a satisfying four- minute snooze. Caffeine addicts no longer have to wait for room service if they are willing to lug along Melitta's 4-lb. automatic drip machine ($40), complete with filters, creamer and sugar bowl. The Take-along Desk Drawer ($40) fits tiny office supplies in a lightweight nylon case...
...economy by diverting American dollars abroad, and the enormous borrowing needed to finance the budget shortfall threatens to push interest rates higher and stunt growth. Says Hugh Johnson, a portfolio strategist for First Albany, a securities brokerage firm: "People went to sleep about the deficit, but they will probably wake up to it this year." Johnson is also skeptical of the current wave of bullish sentiment: "When the prevailing view is one of near unanimous optimism, that is when you have got to be extremely careful...
Coincidentally, two pieces inspired by Joyce's last novel, Finnegans Wake, were premiered a week apart and had practically the same name. Toru Takemitsu's rippling Riverrun (1984) was given its first performance by Pianist Peter Serkin and the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Conductor Simon Rattle. Stephen Albert's ambitious RiverRun debuted at the Kennedy Center in Washington, under Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich with the National Symphony. In Manhattan, Violinist Gidon Kremer played the U.S. premiere of Soviet Composer Sofia Gubaidulina's knotty Offertorium with the New York Philharmonic, while across the East River, the Brooklyn Philharmonic presented the first indoor...
...could happen Harvard officials express the same virulent attitude that their Yale counterparts do. In the wake of a favorable decision last spring from the National Labor Relations Board on a disputed union election. Harvard declared virtual war on the United Auto Workers local trying to organize clerical and technical workers in the Medical Area, vowing to high the union for the good of the University community. The liberal ideal that unions are socially useful in situations, upheld just last year in a book by a pair of Harvard professors, evidently is not applicable at this university. J. P. Stevens...