Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peaceful celebrations underscored the opposition's new mood of restraint in the wake of the government's decision last July to free 652 political prisoners. The Jaruzelski regime was taking a calculated risk in hopes of boosting its credibility at home and abroad. So far, the gamble has paid off: not only has the U.S. relaxed some of the sanctions it imposed after martial law, but the freed prisoners have shown little of the radicalism espoused during the heady days of Solidarity...
...little protest from landowners when the Open Beaches Act was passed in 1959, because at that time the Texas Gulf Coast was sparsely developed. Widespread construction of private homes, hotels and high-rise condominiums has come only in the past ten or 15 years. The new objections, in the wake of Hurricane Alicia, are nothing but "the arrogance of affluence," says Assistant Attorney General Ken Cross. "Building on a beachfront is a gamble with nature. When they take that gamble and put their money down, they should be prepared to risk losing...
...swimmers, men and women, left opponents in their wake...
...shots of runners will be supplemented by hand-held cameras on two specially adapted motorcycles moving along the marathon route. All three vehicles will be powered by electricity, since exhaust fumes might bother the athletes. To follow the rowers and canoeists without swamping them in the wake of an ordinary boat, the network constructed two nearly wakeless craft: both consist of 10-ft.-high platforms mounted atop a pair of racing shells...
...Dreams, as we all know, vanish when we wake. Nightmares vanish too," wrote Continental Illinois Bank Chairman David G. Taylor in a memo to his beleaguered employees earlier this month. But Taylor's corollary proved only half true. The nightmarish flight of Continental's customers that led to the bank's near collapse two months ago has continued. Since May, customers are rumored to have withdrawn two-thirds of Continental's $30 billion in deposits. Last week bank officials appeared to have virtually given up looking for another bank or for some wealthy buyer to infuse...