Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...success secured the band’s fate, both in the minds of its members and in the media.“Before we started on that project we had stalled,” says Rice. “Finishing was a big thing psychologically. You have to wake up every day and decide you want to be a band and if we’d failed it would have been hard to wake up at all.”“It also helped a lot that there was something for people who were writing blogs to talk...
...reason that employers favor diversity training. In the wake of whopping settlements in race-discrimination suits against large companies, including Texaco and Coca-Cola, over the past decade, employers believe that having a program in place can show a judge that they are sincerely fighting prejudice. But this too is a myth, says Dobbin: "I don't know of a single case where courts gave credit for diversity training...
...delivered a speech on the importance of national unity. A mostly female audience watched as she traded compliments with her political colleague, Jeanne Shaheen, the director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) and a former Governor of New Hampshire. Citing the unity the country experienced in the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, Sebelius called for a less individualistic society. “Today we live in what many call an ownership society. In actuality, its more like a ‘you’re on your own ship’ society,” said Sebelius...
...numbers. What startled Clinton's team was not just Obama's totals or his success at drumming up contributions over the Internet, but also how much he is collecting from the big donors who have fueled Clinton enterprises for the past decade and a half. "It was a real wake-up call," says a Clinton strategist...
...could wake up tomorrow and find yourself in another profession, would you want to do? -Nancy Thaler in Brecksville, Ohio I still haven't quite figured that one out yet. But I hope that I can remain in journalism. Journalism is what I have always loved at least since I was 30 and first started...