Word: wakefulness
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...Grosz chaired a task force focused on increasing the representation of women across the science and engineering fields in the wake of controversial comments by former University President Lawrence H. Summers. Summers suggested that biological differences might partially account for the underrepresentation of females in the top tiers of those fields...
...another example of a great concept that could not be sustained by the folks who got it off the ground. That's not going to happen to JetBlue. On Thursday the airline's board of directors pulled the ripcord on JetBlue's founder and CEO, David Neeleman in the wake of February's epic meltdown, in which a winter storm left thousands of passengers stranded. Some sat in JetBlue planes at JFK for up to 8 hours. You don't do that in a city where people get ticked off if a subway is delayed for 30 seconds...
...something similar--provide the debt relief, open markets and foreign aid that really make a difference in a poor country. A couple of weeks ago, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama led the way by proposing that the U.S. double its foreign-aid spending by 2012. In the wake of Iraq, sending more taxpayer dollars abroad doesn't exactly drive focus groups wild. But if Republicans really want democracy to endure, they should match Obama or raise him. "The true desire of all mankind," Obama said, "is not only to live free lives but lives marked by dignity and opportunity...
...wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, many gun control advocates are renewing calls for imposing tighter restrictions on firearms purchases. But the federal government, as it turns out, is having a hard enough time keeping up with current regulations...
...Among their many challenges is the one symbolized by the members of the public who were at the event - or, rather, who were outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Scores of members of the group Wake Up Wal-Mart were protesting the meeting, accusing the company of being part of the country's health care problem, rather than the solution...