Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong for most of the undecided members. But the articles had their intended effect; many members reacted against the Brooks proposals and began working on alternative drafts of their own. As one staff leader later explained, "That got the members thinking. They also began to wake up to the fact that they shouldn't leave it to Doar and the staff...
Carl W. Getz Jr. also wrote letters yesterday to all Printing Office employees in order, he said, to "boost morale" in the wake of the strike...
...nations have been applying the same restrictions on oceanographic studies as they have on offshore fishing. The Brazilians, for example, allow no unauthorized exploration within their 200-mile limit; they do not want outsiders charging around making discoveries that may bring multinational oil or mining firms following in their wake. For similar reasons of pride and pocketbook, India, Pakistan, Sudan, Yemen, Kenya and Tanzania have all been discouraging further research expeditions by U.S. and other outside scientists in the Indian Ocean. Back in the 1960s, American research vessels were refused access to foreign waters only once or twice a year...
...Wake up, America...
Independent Profits Only 16 months after it was put on the auction block in the wake of a spectacular bankruptcy, Rolls-Royce Motors Holdings Ltd. is doing well indeed. After riding in the red for years, it has announced a pretax profit of $11 million on sales of $117 million...