Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only complaint I have is that our omniscient administrators can't get more involved in our lives. Wouldn't it be nice if they figured out a way to start flushing the toilet for us, wake us up every morning and remind us to send letters home...
...wake for Weisenmiller will be held onWednesday from 3 to 7 p.m. at Keefe Funeral Home,2175 Mass. Ave., and funeral ceremonies will beheld Thursday at 9 a.m. in St. John's Church, 2254Mass...
Anyone trying to recover in the wake of last week's visit by Hurricane Bonnie probably isn't feeling especially lucky at the moment. Good fortune isn't the first thing you think of when your living room is full of mud, your roof is missing, your power has been out for days on end. But considering the destruction that often accompanies storms of this magnitude, residents of North and South Carolina and Virginia got off remarkably lightly. Only three people died. Property damage was far lower than it might have been. Beaches remained largely intact...
...this development occurred in plain view, of course, but until the morning of Aug. 24, 1992, no one seemed to recognize its implications. Hurricane Andrew was not merely a wake-up call; it was a stick of dynamite under the pillow. Prior to Andrew, no one envisioned more than $7 billion in insured losses for a single storm. But after Andrew's landfall, Karen Clark, founder of Applied Insurance Research Inc., in Boston, one of a new breed of "catastrophe modelers," sent an audacious message to her clients estimating insured losses at $9 billion. If Andrew proved to be more...
...Category 5, with winds at 150 m.p.h. It also started moving faster. Such rapid change is the thing emergency managers most fear. Says Tom Millwee, coordinator of the Texas Division of Emergency Management: "You go to bed thinking you've got a Cat 1 moving at 10 m.p.h. You wake up, it's a Cat 5 moving at 20 m.p.h...