Word: waking
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...explains Bob Grant, chairman of the lobbying organization Christian Voice. "People with unsafe and immoral behavior were reaping its results." The AIDS-related death of Terry Dolan, a founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, made it an awkward subject among some New Right activists. But in the wake of recent studies showing that AIDS is spreading to the heterosexual community, the right stopped averting its eyes. Two other developments further energized the right: this month's Supreme Court decision granting victims of communicable diseases the same rights in the work force as the handicapped, and last month...
...liven his campaign speeches, Dole rattles off jokes, rapid-fire, like a string of firecrackers. But while he maintains that "I use humor to wake people up," he has often used it to cut them up. In 1974 he barely won re- election to the Senate over Dr. William Roy, a Topeka obstetrician, in one of the nastiest campaigns in Kansas history. Says Roy, who shares Dole's flair for vindictive rhetoric: "He was a slasher and a cutter. You almost felt he cut for the pleasure of cutting." Recalling how Dole ranted about "Democrat wars" when he was Gerald...
...Lago Agrio and travels 340 miles through the Andes to the Pacific port of Balao. The rupture forced the suspension of oil exports, which in recent years have accounted for 60% of the country's export earnings. Already hard hit by falling prices of crude oil, in the wake of the earthquakes Ecuador suspended all payments on its $8.2 billion foreign debt for the rest of this year. Febres Cordero said he took the action "without shame...
...wake of a recent episode of alleged sexual harassment, Princeton President William G. Bowen has asked Provost Neil Rudenstein to investigate Princeton's sexual harassment policy, in response to student complaints...
...students' plan, which comes in the wake of the University's denial of tenure to three popular junior faculty members, calls for student-faculty departmental committees to have a formal input in the tenure process...