Word: waking
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...getting under way last week, all of the cases were dropped. Reason: to spare the children further trauma and to prevent the release of information involving a related investigation "of great magnitude." The FBI and the state attorney general's office have now entered the case in the wake of claims by some of the children that boys brought in from elsewhere to participate in sex parties and pornography sessions had been murdered. Said John Erskine, chief of Minnesota's bureau of criminal apprehension: "We have to assume there is something...
...most part, the particulars of a tenure decision are strictly, a closed-door matter, intensely private and rarely a topic of open conversation. But in the wake of two recent charges of discrimination, outsiders are, for the first time in years, getting a rare close-up look...
...wake, the 98th Congress left a helter-skelter of dead bills. Among the principal casualties was a long-overdue reform of the nation's immigration laws, the Simpson-Mazzoli bill. Also abandoned was a civil rights measure that restated the intent of Congress, in the aftermath of a contrary Supreme Court ruling, to deny all federal funds to entire institutions, rather than just to the offending department or program, if discrimination is practiced. Killed, too, was a bill to renew and increase financing of the superfund program under which Washington helps states and localities clean up toxic-waste dumps...
...insist that they refrain from expanding their position, while also trying to prevent Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from returning to the border region. Said Peres: "We do not look for any favors from the Syrian side. It is up to them to decide whether they want to wake up every morning and find our forces against theirs only 16 miles from Damascus...
...Lebanon. We want to leave; we never intended to remain there. The problem is to know whether it is possible for the United Nations to enlarge its present force in southern Lebanon in the wake of our withdrawal. And we must discuss with the Lebanese government the necessary measures to secure the safety of the northern part of Israel...