Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their relationship had become less closeted in the months before Diana's death last August. But in the wake of that tragedy, the woman Diana once deemed "the Rottweiler" again retreated from view. By March, however, tabloids had got wind that Parker Bowles was spending nights at St. James's as well as the Queen's Sandringham estate. More recently, Parker Bowles has begun to emerge on the social scene. Just a few weeks ago, she attended a gathering thrown by Charles for prominent members of the Greek community at his country place, Highgrove. Last month she turned...
...whose Navigator browser was the first commercial software to link computers to the World Wide Web. Netscape stock jumped from $28 a share to $87 when the company went public in 1995, but it sank to just $15 earlier this year. (Netscape closed at $36 last Friday in the wake of rumors that a behemoth like Time Warner might make a bid for the company. Time Warner denied that it planned to do so.) "There's a lot of momentum buying right now," says Alan Braverman, an Internet analyst for Credit Suisse First Boston. "People go to [Internet] chat rooms...
...victory came on the wake of the Harvard-Yale race--the season's usual finale--held in New London, Conn., on June 6. The Crimson, with a 21 second margin of victory, beat theElis for the 12th time in the past 13 years...
...while it considers whether to just be its own republic, Rod Lincoln had grown tired of life as a school superintendent and bought a saloon 15 years ago in Clinton, Mont. That's probably more of a lateral move than you might think, because you still have to wake people up occasionally, still have to expel troublemakers and still have to lead and inspire...
True, they are no longer students. True, they are supporting themselves. They wake up early in the morning to go to their jobs, and, in the evenings, they either go out with friends or go home and watch TV. Some of them even wear suits to work. And true, all of them are working at jobs that could conceivably be permanent. But only the tiniest number of them actually think that those jobs will be permanent--or that anything about their current lives might be permanent, for that matter...