Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who find this method simply too shocking often try the alternative two-alarm system. This can be modified to meet almost anyone's needs: you need only set one alarm by your bed and the other across the room. The first alarm will wake you without making you get out of bed. Before the second one rings later (at a reasonable time you determine), you will have mentally prepared for it. Even if you fall back to sleep, the second alarm will be less of a rude surprise...
...remain in the same room as their bed, they will inevitably go back to lie down; these people must go one step further, using the two-or-more-alarms method and the out-of-the-room technique. This double-jeopardy system entails setting an alarm inside the room to wake you, and one outside to get you up and away from the bed. Rarely does one use the out-of-the-room method on its own because of the hazards of shock...
...case you're tempted to sleep through it. The best story I heard was from one sophomore who lived next to the bathroom in his suite. He could hear almost any noise in the bathroom, so he decided to set up two alarms, one in his room to wake him up and one in the shower which would echo in the bathroom. When he got to the alarm to turn it off, he was right there in the shower...
Indeed it was. The Labor Party remains locked in a bitter internecine struggle between its militant left wing and moderate centrists. In the wake of the Bermondsey result, there was rampant speculation that Michael Foot, 69, Labor's rumpled and largely ineffectual leader, would have to step down before the next general election, which Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher could call as early as June...
...whose credits include such neorealist masterpieces as Shoeshine and Bicycle Thief), want to make two points: that Louis XVI's plans were unhinged not by ideology but by a series of stupid accidents; that the ideas and impressions of the travelers jouncing along in the King's wake are blinkered by their subjectivity and their failure to account for history's indifference to the logical linking of events, which can be imposed by hindsight. Only Barrault's marvelously ironic Restif, curious as a cat and just as amoral, has things right. He has a taste...