Word: woke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Shiladitya Chatterjee, an economist at the Asian Development Bank in Manila, says governments need to thrash out a regional system to deal with migrant grievances and to help stranded, indebted workers. "Asia only recently woke up to the importance of this invisible export," says Chatterjee about foreign workers. "There must be better regional cooperation...
...seven goals of the game, and Perlman had to make save after save in the first half, it was not until the second quarter that the Crimson made it onto the scoreboard.“We played somewhat sloppy and poor defense in the first half, but once we woke up, we came streaming on back,” Farrar said. “Once you give a team a lead, you can’t expect [a win] to happen.”In the second half, Harvard increased the intensity, outshooting Pacific, 5-0. With Perlman anchoring...
...long ago, we were at a coroners convention and we were speaking with a funeral director, and he said that for 30 years he's been in the funeral business without incident. But a couple months back, he just woke up sweating and screaming, kind of freaked out his wife. It was late at night, and he had a nightmare about one of the guys he had embalmed earlier that day. That goes to show you how psychological stress can chip away at you over time...
...even if every community in America woke up tomorrow and decided to put an end to the sex-education wars--laying aside the chastity belts and condom bananas and embracing comprehensive, abstinence-first education--it's not clear that much would change. That's because for all the battles over funding and policies, no one really knows how sex education is taught inside most classrooms. While most states and local school districts have policies regarding sex education, very few set standards on how to give students factual information about sex or teach them to develop healthy relationships. Even fewer attempt...
Director Joe Swanberg went to bed in Austin, Texas, last Friday evening excited about the world premiere of his new movie, Alexander the Last, the following night at the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival. But by the time he woke up - still more than 12 hours ahead of the debut - his inbox was already flooded with e-mails from colleagues in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago, congratulating him on the movie they had just finished watching and the reviews they had read in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and the New Yorker. Within a single...