The third quarter performance (including rising costs and contracting margins) was apparently the wakeup call that triggered a major change of direction announced last week.
At the crack of dawn, the dreaded wakeup call destroys any hope of a leisurely sleep-in.
For those who are complacent, the retirement wakeup call will come years later when it may be too late to do anything about it except work longer.
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They say corruption is rife in Russia, and that the murder should be a wakeup call for the government.
Some investors say the credit ratings agency merely did this to give the county a wakeup call.
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The 2011 Japan quake and tsunami were a wakeup call for the Pacific Northwest.
One of Japan's wealthiest men and the founder of retailer Uniqlo, Tadashi Yanai, feels the events of March 11 served as a wakeup call to the Japanese about the precarious state of the economy.
D. program and it's all because of this drive, the - it was my wakeup call.
When our predawn wakeup call came the last morning, the receptionist told me it was minus-12 degrees--and said this without a hint of dismay.
This scenario was well on its way to becoming a reality when some intelligent people at NextGov gave a wakeup call to the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC).
To the board, it was a wakeup call to tighten internal controls.
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Denmark's rejection this September of a referendum to substitute the euro for the Danish krone should have been a wakeup call for Prodi and other European politicos.
So I was hoping to be able to do it through spending, but the crisis has gotten too deep, and what happened in the markets globally today is a huge wakeup call.
Only with such a wakeup call can we possibly avert the college public subsidy bubble about which Mr. Barone has generously warned.
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But this is a wakeup call for us to realize that the old idea of the black father who works for the River Rouge Ford plant in Detroit - that was a good thing.
The stories these users told about disappearing data were a wakeup call.
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"The backdrop against which this meeting takes place should be a very serious wakeup call for all of us, " Steiner told some 2, 000 delegates assembled at a convention center in the Thai capital.
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