Word: waking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until 1969, after he had become the manager of a small rubber fac tory, that Shamir began to attend meetings of Begin's Herut Party. Employing his adroit administrative skills, he established a department to attract members from the flood of Jewish immigrants who had arrived in the wake of the 1967 war. In 1973, he won a seat in the Knesset and, following his re-election four years later, he was appointed Speaker of the body. Although Shamir had irritated Begin by refusing to support the Camp David agreements, the Prime Minister recognized in him an invaluable ally...
...throwing her weight around. She furiously paced the runway, screaming at everyone in sight and demanding to speak with her lawyer and Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. After three hours, permission for her departure came through from an unknown-but obviously influential-source. The incident left red faces in its wake. Said Elefterios Kaloyannis, an M.P. for the conservative New Democracy Party: "We have ridiculed ourselves abroad for the treatment we gave Miss Onassis." Meanwhile, the Ministry of Economy was trying to determine who issued the detention order...
...wake of the Milwaukee investigation, hundreds of companies and individual computer owners were scrambling to see whether their information was safe from computer tampering. "Our phone has literally been ringing off the hook," said Robert Campbell, president of Advanced Information Management in Woodbridge, Va., a consulting firm that advises banks and credit-card services on how to protect their computer information. Campbell and others in the computer security field, whose fees range up to $1,000 a day, say that since January there have been at least a dozen major cases of tampering or theft of computer data...
...influential power with all the trappings of a modern nation. Most of Saudi Arabia's wealth, in fact, has been accumulated only in the past decade: with nearly a quarter of the world's proven oil reserves, the kingdom profited handsomely when petroleum prices quadrupled in the wake of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. In 1981, for example, the country collected an estimated $110 billion in oil revenues, up from $2.7 billion in 1971. Government outlays rose accordingly: spending is now running about $80 billion a year...
...Gulf Oil acknowledged that a test well only 20 miles south of the Waterford coast had produced a flow that suggests a sizable field. The early results, said Junior Energy Minister Eddie Collins, "are very encouraging indeed." The mood on the Dublin and London stock markets resembled an Irish wake. Euphoric investors rushed to buy into oil companies that own stakes in the Celtic Sea. Most bought shares of Atlantic Resources, a tiny Irish company that owns a one-third interest in the promising new find; Union Oil and Gulf own the other two-thirds. In less than two months...