Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of the Senate Judiciary Committee's 9-5 rejection yesterday of Judge Robert H. Bork, Harvard experts foretold doom for the Supreme Court nominee and negative repercussions for the Reagan Administration...
...means the free-form riding habits of 5,000 or so messengers. Inspired by the fact that more deliveries mean more money, many messengers whiz around the city in pseudokamikaze style, heeding neither red lights nor one-way signs, zagging on and off sidewalks, leaving behind a wake of screeching tires and cursing pedestrians. Many messengers even opt for bikes without brakes, to save on a few pounds of heavy metal...
Iran's newly aggressive naval forces last week also attacked a British- flagged tanker, Gentle Breeze, setting it afire and killing one seaman. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the assault "absolutely outrageous." In the wake of the attack, Britain finally ordered the closing of Iran's Arms Procurement Office in London, which has been operating openly on the international weapons market throughout the country's seven-year war with Iraq...
...more insane, then the correction is going to be more and more violent." While no direct tie exists between stock-market crashes and depressions, a shattering of Wall Street's confidence would deliver a sharp psychological blow to the rest of the population. Adds Rohatyn: "People will only wake up when one morning they see the stock market unwinding by 150 points in the first two hours. Then people will say, 'Hey, what's happening out there...
Catch them later when they wake...