Word: wakeful
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...power, Family was not just close to home - it was home. Then - in the wake of the late '80s Writers Guild of America strike that pushed desperate networks to learn to produce the cheap 'n easy reality fare - came 1992's The Real World. Like almost all of its emulators, from The Osbournes to the Paris Hilton-Nicole Richie vehicle The Simple Life to The Biggest Loser: Couples, The Real World explored what happened when people "stopped being polite ... and started getting real" ... but not too real. Slickly created and cast by pros, TRW placed seven 18-to-25-year...
...wake of the government's unprecedented take-over of insurance giant AIG, the shares were punished. Mack got in touch with the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Treasury Secretary, and then sent out an e-mail to employees: "It's very clear to me," he wrote, "we're in the midst of a market controlled by fear and rumors, and short sellers are driving our stock down...
...good idea. And when Alessandra switched to reception on the third night, leaving me solely responsible for the desserts, I started to question why they ever thought it was a good idea. Maybe cooking with my mother would have been enough. Maybe I didn’t have to wake up every morning convinced I was going to chop off a finger. I wasn’t a natural. I slipped and tripped and sent sparks flying from the electric mixer when I screwed on the beater incorrectly. I carried shards of a broken bowl around...
...Chile. The violence forced Goni to resign and flee to the U.S., where he remains. Morales has far more political support than Goni, but the memory of military massacre still haunts Bolivian politics. Still, the pressure from his own support base may have prompted Morales to intervene in the wake of Porvenir. The sentiments expressed by Baqueros are typical: "People don't even fear the police anymore," she says. "The government has got to get tougher. Either they put an end to this madness or we will do it ourselves...
...well aware of the $85 billion lifeline extended to troubled insurance giant AIG by the U.S. Federal Reserve several hours before. But the news did little to calm his nerves. A day after Asian markets took a beating as investors dumped stocks in the wake of the Lehman Bros. collapse and Merrill Lynch buyout, anxiety over U.S. financial companies was still spreading. By mid-afternoon, a crowd of roughly 150 people still swarmed the entrance of AIA Singapore Ltd., many trying to pull out their funds or cancel their insurance policies. They shrugged off the blistering heat - as well...