Word: wakefulness
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Hurricane Bob, continuing to blow through the Pentagon, took down its third major Army official Monday in the wake of the Walter Reed scandal. Army Surgeon General Kevin Kiley, who had run the Army's pre-eminent hospital from 2002 to 2004, has submitted his resignation, the Army announced. Following the firing of Army Secretary Francis Harvey and Walter Reed commander Major General George Weightman, Army officials are talking of new leadership to fix the care given to wounded outpatients at Walter Reed...
...financial situation: corporate tax receipts have risen a lot since 2003 as well. That gain is the result of a postrecession recovery in corporate profits, plus the expiration of some Bush tax breaks--plus, speculates University of Michigan economist Joel Slemrod, a decrease in corporate tax avoidance in the wake of the scandals of 2002. It's widely assumed that this corporate tax boom will soon tail...
...apparently posted this: "Every time I feel you wrapped in my arms, I feel nothing can go wrong, every time we hold each others hands, I feel everything is so right..." The next evening, the night before the murder, this appeared: "Knives take my breath away... trapped inside my wake, despair? no, just another day of lifeless." Police say that when Bryan offered to murder Tess's mother, Tess didn't believe him - replying, "Whatever," according to the arrest affidavit. On Feb. 3, Bryan allegedly stabbed Linda Damm four times in the throat and once in the mouth...
...three of us all get along really well and we’re really good friends on and off the [team],” Pensler said. This friendship has been crucial in allowing the freshman foil fencers to adjust to the additional pressure placed on their shoulders in the wake of Cross’ departure. “We’re really supportive of each other and we’ve been doing really well,” Goldfeder said. “So I don’t think any of us felt extremely pressured because of Emily...
...lunch on March 6 with Republicans. He took his usual seat on one side of the stately Mike Mansfield Room and watched the proceedings quietly. Various Senators came by to ask him about his health after a blood-clot scare the day before. Others quietly lent support in the wake of that morning's four-count guilty verdict of Cheney's top aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. But for all the personal shows of support, more Republicans with each passing week have acknowledged privately what is felt across Washington when it comes to the Vice President: his time has passed...