Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more detailed program should emerge within the next few months, when the new titans of socialized industry submit their four-year plans to the government. But in the wake of last week's reassuring appointments, few analysts expect any radical departures. Says Jacques Drossaert, a Paris-based vice president of Merrill Lynch International: "Many of the companies nationalized in the past were run just like private companies. To make a profit, they had to be. There won't be that much change this time either...
...wake of the Ocean -S Ranger disaster, former crew members charged that safety precautions aboard the rig were inadequate and that some crew members were poorly trained. The U.S. Coast Guard and the Canadian government began investigations to examine these questions, and also the design and seaworthiness of the rig. Owned by the Ocean Drilling and Exploration Co. of New Orleans and leased by Mobil Oil Canada Ltd., the Ocean Ranger had not been inspected in two years, and its U.S. Coast Guard certificate of inspection had expired on Dec. 27. Two Coast Guard officers were on their way from...
...meantime, as we pressed on with the airlift and urged a cease-fire linked to U.N. Resolution 242, which in the wake of the 1967 war called in vague terms for a withdrawal from occupied territories and for "secure and recognized boundaries," Watergate again approached one of its climaxes. Much of Nixon's attention during the week of the airlift was absorbed with the court of appeals decision on the Watergate tapes. On Oct. 17 Attorney General Elliot Richardson transmitted a White House proposal to Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor, that Nixon would allow John Stennis, a prestigious Senator...
...cancelled plans for the proposed addition February 1, explaining that the new museum's financing was inadequate, but reversed his decision last week in the wake of protest from Fogg contributors and Fine Arts faculty members. Supporters of the museum said Bok's move would jeopardize the museum's position as the nation's leading teaching institution in the fine arts and hinder further fundraising efforts for both the Fogg and the University...
...candidates all endorsed state tax cuts, but they also expressed support for relieving local communities hit hard by service reductions in the wake the of Proposition 2 1/2 tax reduction approved last year...