Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Argentina's military President, Retired General Reynaldo Bignone, appointed in the wake of the Falklands fiasco, reiterated that the promised return to democracy would take place on schedule. But many Argentine civilian leaders suspected that there was a dangerous alternative: if civilians were relentless in seeking the truth on some painful topics, the military would renege on its pledge to return to the barracks. Said a government official in Buenos Aires: "The military realize they have been discredited and want to go, but there's always the problem of the desaparecidos and the war. They must provide some...
...likes beautiful cars," Nixon once told Television Interviewer David Frost, "and he likes beautiful women." Nixon vividly recalls the procession of women who followed in Brezhnev's wake when he visited the summer White House at San Clemente, Calif., in 1973. Women often appreciated his bantering flattery...
...report, issued Thursday in the wake of complaints by some undergraduates who live off campus, offers several solutions to the "isolation" problem allegedly suffered by some transfer, and first-year students attributed with Dudley House...
...auto industry decisionmakers have, in effect, taken a stand in favor of death for perhaps 16,000 Americans and serious injury for many thousands more. Despite the extra revenue that policy reaps. I don't envy those executives who must face their grim responsibility each morning. I'd rather wake up to news radio...
Allen S. Weiner's piece "Behind the Mask" (Nov.8) attempts, in a dispassionate way, to remind readers that anti-Semitism may motivate some of the criticism of the Israeli government in the wake of this past summer's events...