Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis budget plans come in the wake of negative reaction to the governor's proposal for a $604 million tax hike for next year. The tax plan would raise revenue by increasing taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and capital gains...
...changes come in the wake of house masters' complaints that the current system of voluntary assignment leads to house stereotypes and reduces student diversity. A controversy over the number of athletes in Kirkland House two years ago sparked the latest review...
...wake of these controversies, administrators emphasize their committment to improving the revolutionary "New Pathway" curriculum and to promoting student projects like the U.S.-Soviet exchange program currently in progress...
...take a passing hit for having been misinformed. Bush survived Iran- contra, when reporters and adversaries were rooting around in his record to prove his complicity. He is even more likely to survive an Ignorance Sting, since most responsible Congressmen and economists have been hoping that he will somehow wake up and do "the right thing...
...project may have remained within the bounds of West German law. But that is not saying much. The country's export regulations are among the loosest in the world. The Economics Ministry processes some 70,000 chemical-industry export applications each year. Even the tighter regulations announced in the wake of the Libyan scandal, Economics Minister Helmut Haussmann maintained, do not guarantee that unscrupulous manufacturers will refrain from conducting business as usual...