Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exam a call would go out to someone in his House office, who would in turn call the student. The system was expensive, one of the little luxuries of life at Harvard, and it only affected three or four people every exam period. When the recession came, the wake-up network went...
After the"benign neglect" flap, Moynihan stayed out of the limelight until Nixon made him Ambassador to India in 1973. Arriving in New Delhi at a time when Indo-American relations were at their lowest ebb?in the wake of the U.S. tilt toward Pakistan in its 1971 war with India?Moynihan wisely decided to keep an uncharacteristically low profile. He stayed close to his official residence, Roosevelt House, which he loathed; he gave private showings of John Ford films to American visitors, and made only one or two speeches. The restraints of the New Delhi post have made...
...Peking's view, of course, the center of "revisionism" is Moscow. In the wake of Chou's death, China made an important advance in its continuing struggle with the Soviet Union for power and influence in Asia. After months of deliberations and delay on the matter, Japan last week announced it would sign a peace treaty with China that formally ends World War II hostilities...
...years to prepare and was reviewed and approved by Paul. It was not just a Vatican idea; instead, it was mostly a response to complaints from Roman Catholic bishops in many nations, particularly in the U.S., that the church was not providing sufficient guidelines for sexual behavior in the wake of the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s. Relatively few bishops are theologians, and many have been confused and bothered by the support that progressive theologians have been giving to priests disposed to take a conciliatory attitude toward...
These and other problems are scheduled for public airing on Capitol Hill in the wake of the Washington Post story. Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Com mittee, has announced that he will call Comptroller Smith to testify about what Proxmire called the comptrol ler's "failure to do a vigorous enough job on bank regulation." In the House, New York Democrat Benjamin S. Rosenthal, chairman of a Government operations subcommittee, will hold hearings this week on the adequacy of federal examinations of banks. He plans to call representatives of the comptroller's office, Citibank...