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Word: wakeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From when I wake up until like 7 o'clock I'm handling numerous amounts of business calls. Nighttime hours is more creative work. Throughout all of that I'm trying to weave my way solid through the big-screen arena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 2, 1998 | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...sons always get first claim on the crown. Princes Charles and William can breath easy, because this makes no change to the line of succession -- they're both firstborn anyway. What this does do, however, is slap a huge royal seal on efforts to modernise the monarchy in the wake of Diana's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Thoroughly Modern Monarchy | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

...same token, we ought not stick our heads in sand and refuse to learn from the study. This is a clear reminder, if not a wake-up call, that our educational program is not tip-top. President Clinton is rightly convinced that national standards are the way out of the current mess. At a New York City fundraiser in January, the President explained his reasoning: "We cannot pretend, if we have a truly progressive vision of the future, that we can ever achieve what we want to achieve unless we hold our children--all of our children--without regard...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: A Failing Grade | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

...Lots of people are just sleeping on this issue," he said. "Someone needs to wake them up to what the U.S. is about...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Marchers Decry U.S. Policy on Iraq | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...wake of the recent controversial Cambridge mayoral election and the resultant allegations of ultimatums and acts of back-stabbing fit for daytime television, some city councillors and local politicos are suggesting that the way the city's mayor is elected be reevaluated...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Latest Election Prompts Evaluation of System | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

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