Word: wakeful
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...said. “We’re working and working and working, but it’s not doing anything.” Varua also cited problems with the Out of Town building, where eight to nine employees work. “When you wake up in the morning, you see a cracked window,” he said. “Only one panel is working for the electric lights, the heat isn’t working, all the pictures around the store are falling apart.” He estimated that the kiosk would require...
...been working to find a country willing to accept the Uighurs, who cannot be handed to China under U.S. law since Beijing considers them separatists and may mistreat them. Hundreds of legal challenges to Guantánamo detentions are working their way up through the courts in the wake of a ruling in June by the Supreme Court, which said the prisoners there can have their cases heard in the U.S. legal system...
...Communist Party voters who resent the PS's recent drift toward the center. However, it's uncertain that Delanoë's more moderate but now angry supporters will back Aubry in sufficient numbers to deny Royal - especially with Hamon splitting the party's left flank. So in the immediate wake of the Reims congress, the PS remains a party in search of a unifying leader, a popular program, and a credible strategy for winning back nation power. Sound familiar...
...weekly Saturday radio address, the text of which was released Friday, Bush cast himself in the role of defender of free-market capitalism, as if its very existence were on the table this weekend. "This is a decisive moment for the global economy," Bush said. "In the wake of the financial crisis, voices from the left and right are equating the free-enterprise system with greed, exploitation and failure ... But the crisis was not a failure of the free-market system. And the answer is not to try to reinvent that system...
...wake of the faltering global economy, Macau is not such a sure bet anymore. The problem is that some of those giants embarked on overzealous building sprees - since 2004, the number of casinos in Macau has more than doubled to 31 - and now the global credit crisis is threatening to topple at least one of them. Adelson's company, Las Vegas Sands, has undertaken an aggressive expansion plan over the past few years, winning the bid to build the $4.6 billion Marina Bay Sands casino-resort in Singapore and developing a $743 million casino-resort in Pennsylvania, among other projects...