Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many, it was a disconcerting experience. In McCandless, Pa., four-year-old Heather Campbell, awakened in the morning by her mother, asked: "Why are we going to bed so late?" At the Chicago Zoological Park in Brookfield, keepers had to wake up the wolves for their Sunday dinner of horsemeat and ground turkey. In Puerto Rico, which stayed on standard time, hundreds of tourists missed their scheduled planes to the mainland because the airlines had adopted the new time schedule, and they had to be flown home aboard special flights. At the Bank of America headquarters in San Francisco, bleary...
...about Watergate," says Nunn, 35, a conservative Democrat. "This is not to say they don't deplore Watergate. But people down here want to keep things in perspective. They want the truth, but they don't want to kill the country. They don't want to wake up six months from now to be told, O.K., we've got all the truth about Watergate, but now we've got you a depression...
...Britain's industrial crisis were not trouble enough, the country last week once more became a battleground for Arab-Israeli tension. In the wake of a report by the Beirut weekly al Liwa that Palestinian guerrillas and the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army had agreed to carry out joint acts of terrorism in Britain, a prominent British Zionist was shot in a bold attack...
...chasm. There seems to be no bridge at all between those Spaniards born after the Civil War, who hope to slowly modernize the country, and those born before it, who adhere to the rigid ideals of 81-year-old Dictator Francisco Franco. In the wake of the assassination of President Luis Carrero Blanco by Basque extremists last month, the chasm seems likely to grow wider still...
...Wake up to the realization that American medicine is the last bulwark of free enterprise in the country, free to a great extent of government control. This is what has allowed it to progress to the heights it has attained...