Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...canyon, the red-and-white chopper hovers into view. Right ahead of it, seven majestic mustangs pirouette across a low ridge, chest-high in the sage, kicking contrails of acrid dust in their wake. It is their last moment of freedom. An airborne chase that began miles and ridges ago is about...
...American Jewish leader drew from briefings of his colleagues by White House aides and State Department officials last week. The Administration might quarrel with portions of his description, but in spirit it was accurate enough. Seeking to balance conflicting pressure from Israelis, Arabs and European allies in the wake of winning Senate approval for the sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia, the Administration found itself at odds with nearly everybody. Luck most certainly will be needed to avoid provoking even more anger, and the President and his aides did not have much luck last week...
...Moscow's appeals for peace. Extensive demonstrations in Bonn, London, Brussels, Paris and Rome last month brought nearly a million people into the streets to protest the scheduled deployment of 572 NATO missiles beginning in 1983. Moreover, Europeans were increasingly jittery over U.S. nuclear strategy in the wake of Ronald Reagan's casual remark three weeks ago that an "exchange of tactical weapons against troops" in Europe was conceivable without escalating into an all out exchange between the two superpowers. Although it was misleadingly quoted out of context, the remark revived a recurring fear that...
...House party open to students from other Houses; he has since learned differently. Some masters say Epps first became aware of the violations after students in several Houses that had enforced the rules to the letter complained to him. Another theory has Epps learning of the violations in the wake of a Mather House incident this fall in which a student at a party with alcohol fell down a staircase and cracked his head open...
Conflicting theories of learning in the wake of Head Start