Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These incidents and others like them occurred in the wake of California's adoption two years ago of an initiative declaring English the official language. Until recently language, which has sparked wars and altered national boundaries abroad, was not a political issue in this country. Now a growing number of Americans seem to feel their mother tongue needs protection. Voters in Florida, Arizona and Colorado have approved similar initiatives, bringing to 17 the number of states with such laws...
...Crimson, however, received a wake-up call and scored five goals, its best final-period output of the season...
Another Crimson standout was distance swimmer Stacie Duncan. The freshman from Simi, California left the field in her wake, finishing the 1000-yard freestyle in 10:20.78. Classmate Jenny Moyer placed second...
...acquisition followed a long, hard battle and came in the wake of last year's attempt to take over another U.S. publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. William Jovanovich restructured the company to thwart Maxwell's anticipated $2 billion bid. "Jovanovich killed the company. He's a dumb Croat coal miner. Had I met him, I would have told him so," Maxwell snarls with characteristic restraint. Some American publishers insist that he overpaid by as much as $1 billion for Macmillan. Not so, says Maxwell. "Information is growing at 20% a year," he explains in patient, professorial tones. "Communications is where...
...senior staff gathered in the lounge outside Baker's office on the 38th floor of the Marriott. Baker, his tie still crisply tied, led the proceedings from a chair in the center of the smoky room. Aides were sent scurrying for information. The mood was somewhere between a wake and an all-night cramming session. Nothing much was accomplished, but no one wanted to leave. Dumping Quayle was only fleetingly considered. "We all knew that would be suicide, the end," said a Bush aide...