Word: waking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find him and lead him into the parlor. He played Home on the Range twelve times. Marge hissed from the kitchen, "Get to the end!" The man whined, "I passed it." Marge came out and put her arm around him. "I finally just led him off. They couldn't wake him up till 4 the next afternoon...
...Mexico game and fish department officials believe the bears may be wandering farther afield this year in the wake of a late frost that killed off part of the berry crop they usually feed on. Hunters attribute the problem to overpopulation, the result of a shortened spring hunting season. Whatever the cause, scouts at Philmont are stuffing gunnysacks with food and other odorous goodies and hanging them on trees far from the tents. The name for these odd articles? Bear bags, of course...
This was the first contest played in London under N.F.L. auspices (two earlier ones were sponsored by private promoters). With the U.S.F.L. decision to retire from the field this year in the wake of an adverse court decision, the N.F.L. is set to solidify its hold on Americans and has designs on Europe. Building on 4 million British viewers a week, the league is trying to penetrate cable and pay-TV markets in a half a dozen more European countries. The London visit by the Bears and Cowboys was tailor-made for proselytizing, and the teams were turned into ambassadors...
...with the ethical dilemmas raised by the University's investment policies. Bok seems committed--above all else--to preserving the power structure that gives him and his six white male cohorts on the Corporation almost complete control over the University. Since setting up shop in Massachusetts Hall in the wake of his predecessor's inability to handle student protests, Bok has carefully consolidated his power and built up his own administrative structure. That administration has seen the power of the student protest movement erode, the development of an impotent student government that is an object of ridicule, and a return...
...resolve his administrative dilemma over divestment. In the hot quiet summer and in the wake of the U.C. divestment Bok can quietly do the same. He should do it because it's the right thing to do and he can do it without endangering his carefully nurtured administrative control of the University...