Word: wakeful
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While impossible Undergraduate Council campaign promises continue to plague the Yard, things are different in the upperclass Houses. Worldly upperclassmen know better than to be enchanted by the alleged possibility of longer dining hall hours and termination of the universal wake-up call in the form of the Mem Church bells. Since straightforward platforms may not be enough to sway House-dwellers to vote at all, what’s a candidate...
...Tibetan Authority, headed by the Dalai Lama, and the People’s Republic of China began in 2002. His continued diplomatic efforts have had some success, but he said Chinese insistence on the Dalai Lama as a major instigator of resistance has slowed down the process. In the wake of several pro-Tibet protests and demonstrations last spring, Chinese authorities charged the Tibetan spiritual leader with condoning, even encouraging, violence. As Gyari noted, Chinese officials were later forced to recognize the protests as “a strong expression of discontentment” on the part of the Tibetan...
...Businesses have cautioned that unions are exacerbating an already delicate situation: the FEB/VBO employers' group has warned that Belgium could face a wave of bankruptcies and restructurings in the wake of the financial crisis, and strikes will only make matters worse...
...other country, science has been the secret to success for the United States, from practical inventions like the airplane or the personal computer, to breakthroughs like the nuclear bomb, to feats of engineering like the lunar landing. If we keep going at this rate, we’ll wake up one morning to find Europe or Asia accelerating past us, and it won’t just be in underground laboratories...
...This process, more than a year in the making, shot into overdrive in the wake of the corporate failures and takeovers that began with the collapse of Lehman Brothers on Sept. 15. Less than two weeks earlier, on Sept. 4, the Association for Financial Professionals surveyed more than 350 large companies about how the availability of short-term credit (or the lack thereof) was affecting business. Seventy-one percent said there was no significant impact, 11% said growth had slowed, and only 2% said business had contracted...