Word: wakeful
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...Cambridge City Council last night received more bad news about the city's finances in the wake of Proposition...
They have nothing to be ashamed of. So after winning 22 times in the regular season, against just six losses, after soaring to an upset victory in the ACC tournaments while top twenty powers Virginia. Wake Forest and Maryland fell by the wayside, after stopping potent Utah in Salt lake City to win the Western Regional and crunching favored Virginia to earn a sot in the finals, the last game of the 1981 college basketball season, it turns out the University of North Carolina was not the best team in the United States. At least not last night. So what...
...tell Virginia and Wake Forest and Maryland that the ACC Tournament isn't a big one. Tell Utah and Kansas State and Virginia again that losing early in the NCAA tournament--second or third or semi-final round--doesn't get you just as eliminated as losing on the last Monday night with half the people in the country plus Al McGuire watching. Tell Ralph Sampson that wasn't a big one Carolina won Saturday. Or, tell him he's a choker, and he can't handle the pressure...
...other way. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, after years of bending over backward to avoid offending the Soviets, has belatedly realized that his foreign policy was out of tune with public opinion. The French voter has become increasingly wary of Moscow's motives in the wake of Afghanistan and the outbreak of unrest in Poland. Consequently, the election-minded President has executed a swift about-face. Since France is not a member of NATO's military command, it has no direct role in the U.S. missile-deployment plans. Yet Frenchmen have been virtually unanimous...
...Western governments in East Asia, as well as most of the neutral ones. Says Hisahiko Okazaki, a top strategist of Japan's Defense Agency: "As we see it, the Americans are coming back. There seems to have been a psychological change in American public opinion, largely in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...