Word: wakes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Just as Gore & Co. are exiting the press room, Melissa Etheridge wins Best Original Song for "I Need to Wake Up" from their film. The Veep hoots, beams and nods while watching Etheridge's speech on the monitors before exiting to make way for Maestro Ennio Morricone and his translator...
...wake up and smell the coffee at Starbucks. That's the lament of Howard Schultz, the founder and chairman of the ubiquitous java chain, in an internal memo that recently became external. In this wistful missive, Schultz fretted that, because coffee is delivered in flavor-locked packaging, the atmosphere had changed, the romance evaporated; the Starbucks "experience" of baristas grinding beans, pulling expresso shots and hand-crafting beverages had been automated away by machines that can knock out an expresso with the press of a button...
...South Bend have found a solution to this problem by starting a “nap club.” The club’s headquarters is a dark, quiet room where up to 15 students at a time can snooze and be insured that a moderator will wake them up for their next class. However, Associate Dean of Harvard College, Judith H. Kidd was skeptical that such an institution could be established at Harvard. “If students want to start an organization to talk about the benefits of napping, we probably would allow...
...think that’s what happened against Princeton, we were very laid back,” Suchde said. “I think that loss did us a lot of good in a way. It was like a wake up call. Now we are all really focused; there is no reason to be overconfident...
...JetBlue's customers felt anything but protected last week when the airline was forced to cancel more than 250 domestic and international flights in the wake of a crippling ice storm in New York City. Fliers around the world were stranded and honeymoons and business meetings missed. Among the made-for-TV stories that emerged: passengers on nine JetBlue flights were held on the icy tarmac at John F. Kennedy Airport - some for more than 10 hours - with little more than a bit of snack food and some fetid latrines for company...