Word: waking
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...faculty-student committee, chaired by Ford Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye, may recommend the abolishment of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, a broad philosophical statement about the conduct expected of Harvard students that emerged in the wake of the student protests of the late 1960s...
...market's 508-point drop shook up the business community and has made the future financiers from the Class of '88 proceed with caution in their job searches. Nonetheless, the storm seems to be over, and its wake was not powerful enough to frighten most seniors away from Wall Street...
Bobbie Battista, an anchorwoman for Cable News Network, is not exactly a household name in the U.S., but she is a celebrity in Poland. French, Italian and Japanese viewers now wake up to the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, while Australians fall asleep to the sound of Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel of NBC's Today show -- at midnight. Marshall McLuhan's oft-cited 1967 declaration is finally coming to pass: "We now live in a global village . . . a simultaneous happening...
Helms, one of only six Senators who do not have a college degree, dropped out of Wake Forest to become a reporter, then program director of a Raleigh radio station. Years later, his unabashedly conservative editorials for a Raleigh television station won him a statewide following and future political base. He first came to Washington in the early 1950s as a staffer to North Carolina's Senator Willis Smith, but the advice he remembers best came from Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell: "Jesse," he told him, "a Senator who does not know the rules can be cut to ribbons...
...latest doubts, which could weigh heavily on the minds of consumers. Katherine Dallam, a 31-year-old computer-graphics entrepreneur in the Bronx, worries about flying because, among other things, she keeps hearing about "parts falling off the planes." Eastern has acknowledged a decline in bookings in the wake of the FAA probe, even though both that carrier and Continental expect the investigation to exonerate them. Ronald King, a Brooklyn school counselor, almost canceled two Eastern tickets for a Bahamas vacation with his girlfriend. Says he: "I had to stop reading the newspaper so I wouldn't get scared...