Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although President Reagan and other top officials have vowed to proceed with the plan to allow Kuwaiti tankers to change their registry, the move has drawn criticism on Capitol Hill in the wake of the May 16 attack on the frigate USS Stark...
...America, which took such back-thumping pride in its spiritual renewal, finds itself wallowing in a moral morass. Ethics, often dismissed as a prissy Sunday School word, is now at the center of a new national debate. Put bluntly, has the mindless materialism of the '80s left in its wake a values vacuum...
This year's season is 30 games long, with the finale coming on July 18. The Gulls, who were 1-2 going into last night's game in Florida, carry 10 players, among them college notables Tyronne Bogues of Wake Forest and David Kipfer of Providence College...
...eleven months since he was elected Austria's President, Kurt Waldheim has become known as the "prisoner of the Vienna Hofburg." Not that the former United Nations Secretary-General has been literally confined to the sumptuous gold-and-white quarters that serve as his office. But in the wake of revelations that for decades he concealed much of his record as an officer in the German army during World War II, Waldheim has not formally received even one foreign head of state or paid a single official visit abroad, duties that are the stock-in-trade of his largely ceremonial...
Reagan could easily understand Nakasone's political troubles because he has plenty of his own in the wake of the Iran-contra scandal. In addition, Reagan has to deal with a Congress that has become increasingly protectionist. As America's trade deficit has steadily grown, political leaders have become more and more vocal in their demands for a halt in Japanese imports. Tokyo last week released new figures showing that Japan's worldwide trade surplus ballooned to an astonishing $101.4 billion in the twelve-month period that ended in March. Some $52 billion of that bulge came from trade with...