Word: wakeful
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...true that you sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, thinking about plays that happened in the game? When I'm not doing something well, or I didn't play my best, it kind of eats at me. Sometimes at night, I will get out of bed, unconsciously, and I'll walk through the play, and try to correct it. I pride myself in doing that. If I had a girlfriend, she'd be like, "Larry, what are you doing?" She'd get confused by it. My love for this sport is definitely a sickness...
...would not be broadcast in a team's local market if it did not sell out its stadium 72 hours prior to kickoff - which dates to 1973, when the league feared that TV broadcasts would stop people from buying tickets - affected just a handful of games. But in the wake of the nation's worst recession in decades, as many as a dozen of the NFL's 32 markets, including Arizona, Cincinnati, Detroit, Jacksonville, Minnesota and San Diego, are in danger of having their local telecasts blacked out. A Jacksonville Jaguars official says it's "very possible" that none...
...committee was in the process of addressing the issue last year under the direction of former superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, but was interrupted when he “went to pursue other interests,” in the words of School Committee member Joseph G. Grassi. In the wake of Fowler-Finn’s departure, the school committee was considering candidates for the superintendency that would be particularly adroit at handling the middle school issue. “We voted on the 100 days deadline because we as a group believe that this is an important issue that...
...only 17% of Americans held unfavorable views of Muslim Americans, a decrease from 24% just eight months earlier. The shift was most striking among conservative Republicans - in March 2001, 40% viewed Muslim Americans unfavorably, but by November, that number had plummeted by more than half to 19%. In the wake of the attacks, Americans were also reluctant to say that Islam encourages violence more than other faiths; only one-quarter agreed with that statement in March 2002. But by the time the war in Iraq began one year later, that view had changed dramatically, with 44% of Americans willing...
...much for change. In the wake of the mortgage-market fiasco, in which get-rich-quick schemes alchemized in the cubicles and conference rooms of Broad Street translated into a meltdown of the international financial system, bankers have been looking for new markets to tap. But despite all talk of a new approach to the future of finance, the reality is that the most recent innovations are only geared to resurrect the same old broken system...