Word: wakefulness
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Commentators in Europe point out that the dollar's continued slide against most international currencies has largely been fueled by domestic American factors - notably the credit tension and business failures in the wake of the subprime crisis, and wider signs that the U.S. has or is entering into recession. But plummeting investor confidence in the American economy has only accelerated the greenback's erosion, which in a little over two years has depreciated from $1.1826 per euro in January, 2006 to Thursday's $1.56. The result is that products manufactured by companies paying euro-fixed salaries and supplies wind...
...think the courtside dress code you put in place [in 2005] has had a positive effect? -Michael Blackwell, Cedar Falls, IowaI do. I viewed it as an opportunity to say to our players that there is this issue of respect, and we just have to wake up and focus on that. It's not the draconian dress code that people came to believe it was. You would have thought I'd said you had to wear a tuxedo or tails to a game...
...Paradigm Hotel Rwanda (2004) The 1994 genocide serves as a wake-up call to the West, with Rwanda as a bleak symbol of ignored injustices everywhere...
...While the scientists said that U.S. researchers have made enormous strides in unlocking the secrets of human health and disease, they said that this progress may come to a grinding halt in the wake of stagnant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). And not only is flat funding taking a toll on research, but it’s also affecting the careers of younger scientists, according to a new report released yesterday by Harvard and the six other research institutions...
...effort to not just get the job done but to make people comfortable." According to the New York Times, Paterson once jokingly told a gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of the demands of his job. "I'll tell you what the lieutenant governor's job is. You wake up every morning at 6:30 and you call the governor's house. If he answers, you can go back to sleep." Paterson will no longer be getting as much sleep...