Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter what, there is nothing a photojournalist would rather do than look at the world around him and take pictures of it -- pictures of living history, which means, especially, pictures of human behavior. If he doesn't get a thrill out of that job, if he doesn't wake every morning with excitement and go out with his cameras hanging on him like a gold prospector with his rock hammer in hand, % he's no good. Over the years some photojournalists have said to me, "if they didn't pay me for doing this, I'd do it for them...
...bankers. But the buyouts have been fueled by financing from a junk-bond market that was severely weakened last month when Canadian developer Robert Campeau nearly defaulted on $1.27 billion of debt payments on loans that he had used to acquire Allied Stores and Federated Department Stores. In the wake of Campeau's problems, the money for new takeovers has begun...
...Memphis barber who acknowledges cooking dinner for Abernathy, King and his assistant, Bernard Lee, on the evening in question. She contends that Abernathy, having fallen unconscious while drinking, occupied her bedroom until about 3:45 a.m., when she and King put an ice pack on his neck to wake him. Said she: "If there was any sex going down in my bedroom, it was by Abernathy himself." The former Kentucky lawmaker, Georgia Powers of Louisville, was at the Lorraine Motel that night but declined to comment...
...investigative reporter for the New York Times, spent years researching events that led to his mother's murder. The investigator was indistinguishable from the avenger. He eventually tracked down Eleni's inquisitor and interviewed him at gunpoint. But Gage did not pull the trigger. "There are times when I wake up at night and want to get back on a plane and kill the son of a bitch," Gage said. A Place for Us overlaps that past and goes on to embrace less heroic lifetimes, mainly the author's and that of his father. Yet each life is gallant...
Marcos supporters have petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court to reverse its earlier decision denying re-entry to Marcos. In the meantime, Imelda plans to place her husband's body temporarily in an aboveground crypt. Plans for a wake in the auditorium of Manila's Honolulu consulate were dropped, perhaps after it was discovered that the hall was named after Ninoy Aquino...