Word: waking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee was charged with recommending safeguards against future incidents of sexual harassment, in the wake of a harassment case involving a Government professor...
...while McGee still has ardent supporters in the State House, Barrett believes that a new era of creativity may already be under way in the wake of recent events. "Representatives are feeling the joy of acting autonomously in coming up with their own initiatives for the first time," he said. Such a constructive attitude could provide the balance needed to keep McGee under close supervision...
...fact, in the wake of the stripping of power since the '60s, the Senior Common Room is considered by many masters to be the area where they have the greatest effect on the House environment...
...wake of the gulf attacks, former Lebanese Prime Minister Saeb Salam warned, "The growth of Islamic fundamentalism is an earthquake. It is becoming more radical, making alliances with those who support Communist ideology." He and other Arab moderates felt the situation had been exacerbated, however, by the growing U.S. military involvement in the region and the U.S. decision, announced during Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's visit to Washington last month, to adopt a new policy of "strategic cooperation" with Israel so as to check the growing strength of Soviet-armed Syria...
Based on the obscure, reconstructed facts of her life, the movie documents Silkwood's story vividly, drawing in its wake a stunning depletion of the squalid life in her southern Oklahoma town, and graphic details of routine abuses at a nuclear power plant. It successfully avoids over-romanticizing Silkwood's role as a pseudo-reactionary, instead presenting the material without a slant while filling the plot with amazing detail and brittle, yet good natured humor...