Word: woking
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Wulsin, who was asleep when the alumni office called, didn't find out that he had won until he woke...
...fool's war with gravity, a crash victim who finds his near death experience makes him feel alive, an earthbound stargazer who dreams of abduction by alien spacecraft. His voice is often sampled, distorted by synthesizers, his lyrics broken into elegiac fragments, shards of thoughts, mantras of melancholia. "I woke up sucking a lemon," Yorke sings on Everything in Its Right Place, and the phrase is repeated again and again in a plaintive sample. Throughout Kid A he returns to the theme of restlessness, rootlessness and confusion. On the ethereal jazz breakdown In Limbo, he croons, "I'm lost...
While that brought prosperity to the industrial, consuming nations, it bled the producers. OPEC members watched their petrodollar budgets slide into the red, and other exporters, such as Russia and Mexico, went virtually bankrupt from lost oil revenues. Finally, in the past year, OPEC's members woke up. Why should the West profit from unparalleled prosperity while they drew up austerity plans? They boosted the cost of crude by slowing production, until a barrel fetched nearly $35. Americans, like Europeans, started to grumble at the steady rise in the price they paid to gas up. By summer, U.S. drivers were...
...time that all humanity woke up to the realities of global warming--something that scientists have recognized and warned about for years [ENVIRONMENT, Sept. 4]? After significant climatic change, the earth may be not as generous, richly diverse or hospitable as it has been in centuries past. What right do we have to threaten the existence of other species? Who are we to selfishly deprive future generations of the gifts of the earth? JANICE H. IANNELLI DI TOSTO Lincoln Park...
...Pizza spot, star quality arrived. Jay Leno donated $10,000 to a SAG strike fund, and soon Kevin Spacey, Harrison Ford, Nicolas Cage, George Clooney and Helen Hunt had ponied up amounts of from $10,000 to $200,000. Now that famous faces were attached to celebrities, the media woke up to the strike. So did some of the citizenry: a 16-year-old boy, who saw Richard Dreyfuss present the union view of the strike on Rosie O'Donnell's TV klatch, sent a $10 money order with a note reading, "Now I understand what this is about...