Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most visible activism took place in the wake of a rape of a Harvard employee in a Science Center office one December afternoon. More than 150 students--mostly women--marched through the Yard and to the Science center the day after the incident...
...Reagan heads West, to retirement in California, he will leave in his wake a trail of names, men and women who have graced the United States government with gracelessness. James Watt. Anne Burford. Ed Meese. Oliver North. Reagan's Hall of Shame is fuller than any president...
...modern-day Rip Van Winkle were to fall into a deep sleep for the next ten or 20 years, he might wake up to the whoosh of trains being propelled through the air by superconducting magnets. He might observe crowds of commuters toting supercomputers the size of magazines. In average homes, he might see 7-ft. TV images as crisp as 35-mm slides and enticing new food products concocted in the lab. But if he could read the labels on those futuristic creations, he might also discover the outcome of America's struggle to remain the leading technological superpower...
...Marine off the hook without taking the politically risky step of formally pardoning him. Late last week Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell indicated that he wanted a Senate committee review of Walsh's decision. Already the judge has postponed the planned Jan. 31 start of the trial in the wake of these new developments. If the rest of Walsh's case collapses, the most embarrassing scandal of Reagan's presidency will end as it began -- in confusion and controversy...
Jenifer had said about 1000 students would be denied entrance to schools this semester because of a need to trim enrollments in the wake of the budget cuts. Students seeking second-semester admission and transfers account for the bulk of the entrance denials, he said...