Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peterkin took office in the wake of a bitter political battle that resulted in the firing of his predecessor, William Lannon, and School Committee members said he has unified the normally polarized board. Like the City Council, the School Committee has long been a battleground between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association and the more conservative, neighborhood-oriented Independents...
...ruling that the court will reconsider is Runyon v. McCrary, a 1976 case involving suits by black parents against two all-white private schools. That decision required the Justices to look into the language of laws enacted in the wake of the Civil War, when Congress was seeking to guarantee the rights of newly emancipated blacks. Though the 19th century statutes make no mention of schools, one of them does guarantee all persons the same right "to make and enforce contracts." In the 1976 case, the Justices concluded 7 to 2 that Congress intended the law to forbid segregation...
...Patrick's Day parade in Chicago last month, Kitty asked him to push up her collar against % the wind. Dukakis, who forgot that he was wearing a microphone that allowed the press to hear his comments, whispered to her as he adjusted her coat, "Tonight if I'm asleep, wake me up. Don't let a moment go by." (Kitty cut in with a sharp, "Your microphone's on.") Sometimes, to counteract criticism that he lacks fire, Dukakis will tell audiences, "Kitty thinks I'm passionate...
...HAVEN--Someone sent the Harvard baseball team a perfectlytimed wake-up call...
...issue at Harvard for 20 years. It has become clear that student protest alone will not convince Derek Bok and his associates on the Corporation to rethink their investment policies. As a result, activists have sought to change the process which allows Harvard to maintain such policies in the wake of widespread disapproval from its student body...