Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wake of these disheartening reports the Med School must continue its vigorous recruitment of minority students and convince them that Davis's irresponsible statements do not represent the policies of the Medical School...
This points out two major faults with the local campaign reform legislation enacted in the wake of the 1972 campaign and the Watergate hearings. The new Massachusetts laws banned corporate contributions to candidates, and limited all individual contributions--to candidates and referendum committees--to $1000 each. It clearly did not ban or even limit business contributions to political committees for or against ballot questions that would affect their business. The effect of this has been all too dramatic. Most of the contributors to committees in favor of the bottle bill, for example, were individuals who, even if they could afford...
...occupancy rate of the "Grand Old Lady of Broad Street," as Philadelphians affectionately call it, had dipped to a disastrous 8% -and losses climbed to $10,000 a day. Even such gestures as last week's symposium did not help. Indeed, the meeting was really more like a wake. At week's end the Bellevue Stratford closed its doors-thus becoming the 30th fatality of Legionnaires' Disease...
...Warren E. C. Wacker, UHS director, said on November 21 doctors were not encouraged by the amount of electrical activity shown by Puopolo's EEG. Wacker said the longer it takes Puopolo to wake up, the more likely brain damage is to have taken place...
...wake of the tragedy, Savino was charged with second-degree murder; ROTC headquarters assigned an inspector-general to investigate the incident; St. John's suspended the fraternity pending the outcome of a university inquiry. Even before their full-scale investigations began, both the ROTC and St. John's disputed the police version that the fatal stabbing stemmed from hazing. One ROTC officer suggested that the Pershing Rifles were simply conducting unauthorized training maneuvers. That theory raised the question of why only the pledges played the roles of P.O.W.s. As for St. John's, its spokesman noted that...