Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years this exemption has been a source of irritation to city officials, and in the wake of Proposition 2 1/2, the provision allowing Harvard et al to save hundreds of thousands of dollars annually has many city council members predicting a fast-approaching crisis. Nearly half of the total property in Cambridge falls under the non-profit institution exemption...
...three broken, Ford and Carter were ready for their joint press conference. There was shock in Jerusalem and surprise in Washington when they agreed that sooner or later the U.S. would have to deal with the Palestine Liberation Organization, as the search for Middle East peace resumed in the wake of Sadat's death. Jody Powell found himself running the Xerox machine as in days of yore. And some travelers thought they saw in Rosalynn's eyes a longing for the old grandeur. So it went, on the most remarkable jet journey of our time...
...wake of Sadat's murder, how was tribute paid to the memory of this man? With wreaths of weaponry, offered Sin the name of peace. As a war ing to Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, whose country as a veritable Soviet arsenal, U.S Secretary of State Alexander Haig promised to speed shipments of new bombers and tanks to Egypt. An American, delegation visited the Sudan where Libya's Soviet-supplied jets have been bombing border villages, and promised to try to deliver quickly $100 million worth of military equipment to a jittery President Gaafar Nimeiri. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Margaret...
...battlefield, he initiated the tradition of Israeli officers personally leading their troops into battle. His extraordinary courage and enormous stature inevitably made him a lightning rod for Israel's triumphs and tragedies. No Israeli political figure soared to such heights of public esteem as did Dayan in the wake of Israel's blitzkrieg victory in the 1967 Six-Day War-or to such depths of public scorn, as he did after the nearly catastrophic October...
Sadat was also faced with increasing sectarian opposition within Egypt during the last months of his life. In September he cracked down hard, jailing 1,600 opponents, mostly Islamic militants, in the wake of bloody rioting between Muslims and Coptic Christians. The mosques were "nationalized," police details were bolstered on university campuses and an investigation of the state bureaucracy began. Following these moves, Sadat declared in a tough speech that "lack of discipline in any way or form" had ended in his country. This time, however, the visionary statesman and consummate strategist had fatally misjudged the situation: his killers emerged...