Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...itinerary sounded like something drawn up by a Caribbean cruise director: Barbados and St. Lucia, Haiti and Jamaica, Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the U.S. Gulf Coast. But the voyage left shattering death and destruction in its wake. Hurricane Allen brought savage 185 m.p.h. winds and 20-ft. waves. It wiped out most of the Caribbean banana crop, demolished thousands of homes and killed more than 100 people before its final landfall in Texas. Said Noel Risnychok, a meteorologist at Miami's National Hurricane Center, as the winds scythed through the normally placid Caribbean: "Allen has the potential...
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Boston officials, fearing racial violence in the wake of several killings in the last few weeks, almost refused to grant permits to the women, Stoller said...
...leaders. And those doubts raise a more serious question: how long can a government remain trusted, beloved, when it relies on power, not reason, to enforce its dictates? In a way, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), Jimmy Carter and the rest should be thanked--draft registration will wake up another generation, start them wondering about our world. And who's to blame if the answers they arrive at don't jibe with administration policy...
...President had tried to emphasize that he meant the registration campaign to be no more than a sign of U.S. resolve in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Said he flatly: "I am not in favor of a peacetime draft." But from the start, his plan was complicated by the question of whether women should be included. Carter thought yes, and proposed registration for both sexes. But Congress said no, and last June enacted a males-only law. By then the 1971 suit, which had lain dormant for years after the 1973 ending of the draft, had been...