Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed 1-per-cent tax on services-aimed, according to its sponsors, at city consulting and research services that are exempt from sales taxes-was one of six proposals sent to the legislature in an attempt to increase tax revenues in the wake of proposition...
...been given any specific functions. I have talked to Reagan about my responsibilities. But I think the Mondale formula is a good one. The way in which he was a generalist was good. That is what I would like to be. What I want is for people to wake up in two years and say, "You know, this guy really did something." But I will keep a low profile, and I will not have hurt feelings when people ask, "What happened to George Bush?" How much I do depends on how little I have to say about it publicly...
They are called welfare states, after the sense of collective compassion that inspired them in the wake of the Great Depression and World War II. Like Gothic cathedrals, they rose gradually across Western Europe, in dedication to a lofty goal: to create more humane societies, in which a solicitous state not only shielded the old and the sick but guaranteed a living wage and a cushion against the hardships of unemployment. The result-cradle-to-grave economic protection far beyond anything available in the U.S.-became European social democracy's proudest achievement. That accomplishment is now undergoing a painful...
...almost blind and unable to paint any longer. Not so Nevelson, who sails into her ninth decade with undiminished vigor. The year 1980 brought her a load of work, commissions and exhibitions heavy enough to floor an artist half her age. It was her big year. In its wake, some 20 of her giant steel sculptures-scaled up from Nevelson's maquettes by the Lippincott works in North Haven, Conn., a foundry the size of a shipyard-are under construction for various corporate and civic bodies. She held a show of her wood constructions and collages at Wildenstein last...
...tired Harvard team that got off the bus in Waterville. After a three-and-a-half hour ride and only a 40-minute break before they hit the ice, the skaters just weren't up to an hour of solid, grueling hockey. "We just didn't wake up in time for the game," coach Rita Harder said...