Word: aftermath
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...revolving door between the Kennedy School and Washington traditionally gets a lot of use in the aftermath of an election year...
...orders for feeding and clothing survivors. Numb with fatigue, he had no idea how many people in his area had died: "We have pulled 7,000 out of the rubble. Many were still alive." Many died instantly, said Dr. Robert Gale, who was also present at the Chernobyl aftermath. "Once rigor mortis set in, they were frozen in time. Just like at Pompeii, you could tell what they were doing when the quake struck...
Indeed, in the aftermath of the election, momentum is clearly with the "pro-life" side in what may be the final round of the battle over abortion. "I'm extremely worried," says Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). "I'm scared about what the court might do, and I'm concerned about George Bush." Though Bush has taken various positions on the issue over the course of his long political life, he campaigned for the presidency on a staunchly antiabortion platform. Last week he affirmed his commitment to that platform by deciding to keep...
THEY BARELY KNEW WHAT HIT THEM. Al Frank, publisher of the Santa Monica-based newsletter The Prudent Speculator ($200 a year), admits that he was "clobbered" by the crash and its aftermath. He regrets failing to warn his readers, saying, "We had a lot of new clients who had signed up at the top of the market. Their stocks did not do well. It was very sad for me." Frank, 58, lost $750,000 of his own money, and his subscriber list has dwindled from 5,700 a year...
Created in 1946 as the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), the commission was expected to fill the gap left by the demise of a similar federal program in the aftermath of World War II. Previously--in 1943--the state had approved the Massachusetts Committee on Racial and Religious Understanding in response to racerelated violence around the country...