Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. But it later split with the clergy-dominated regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Over the past eight months it has launched a bloody campaign of insurrection that culminated in the assassination of President Mohammed Ali Raja'i and many other top government figures. In the wake of severe government reprisals, Mujahedin activities have tapered off. The Mujahedin say they have merely switched tactics from assassinating political leaders to attacking government security forces. Government sources claim that, in fact, the rebels made an average of 20 raids a day on government posts in Tehran this winter. Three...
...able to major in women's studies since 1975, according to Dr. Joan P. Shapiro, associate director of the women's studies program Shapiro says the program is a direct out growth of a sit in at College Hall in 1972 by women protesting perceived university indifference in the wake of a recent rape on campus. The protest led to the founding of the Women's Center, originally concerned only with security, which began eventually to teach courses. The women's studies program now teaches some courses of its own, and sponsors "practicums," in which students receive course credit...
When first arriving at the K-School in the wake of defeat, "I promised myself that I would not think seriously about politics for my first two years there," Dukakis says. He insists that he did not make use of the many political experts and strategists who teach and visit the school, but nevertheless benefitted greatly from his tenure...
...wake of the tragedy of Air Florida Flight 90 [Jan. 25], airlines should set up final de-icing procedures where and when it will do the most good-at the end of the taxiing runway just prior to takeoff. Laurence J. McCaffery Butte, Mont...
...mainly because of the rising cost of building the plants. Charles Komanoff, a New York energy economist, argues that the capital investment required to build a reactor is almost twice that required to build a coal plant. Soaring costs come partly from the need for greater safety in the wake of Three Mile Island. But more important is the declining demand for electricity, which not only reduces corporate revenues needed to finance plant construction, but makes Wall Street wary of investing in utilities...