Have you woken up?

I'd just woken up and was still drowsy.

I feel as if I've woken up from a nightmare.

I've woken up and I intend to prepare my breakfast.

If you're interrupted and woken up, you have to start again.

I was woken up by the noise of the traffic outside.

The children must be woken at 7 and fed at 7 30.

Much better to be woken by the birds than by an alarm.

When the full moon falls down on the roof at night, all the farmers are woken up.

Fortunately, the international community has woken up. An initiative of African finance ministers, chaired by former South African president Thabo Mbeki, is investigating the issue on the continent, where up to 1.4 trillion was lost to illicit outflows over the last three decades.

Regulators have recently woken up to the incentives for excessive leverage in this sector and to the risks that such leverage poses to lenders and the broader economy. Not surprisingly, big private equity firms seem determined to ignore or otherwise circumvent new restrictions.

While all the brothers were busy just being hyper connected 24 7, maybe a sister would have noticed the iceberg, because she would have woken up from a seven and a half or eight hour sleep and have been able to see the big picture.

Now, more than four years after the terrorist attacks of September 2001, Bush appears to have finally woken up to the reality of America s increasing dependence with soaring oil prices, it was hard for him not to note the consequences. But, again, his administration s faltering moves will almost surely make matters worse in the immediate future.

In the United Kingdom, the new government gave several reasons for front loading fiscal consolidation. The bond vigilantes might have woken up if early austerity was not implemented the deficit was very large and the public sector bloated and it is always politically easier to implement tough measures early in an administration, when popular support is still high and the next election is far off.

In particular, China has followed a strategy in the past decade or so that entails running large current account surpluses and building up foreign exchange reserves, which are now reported to be in excess of 3 trillion. Indeed, Subramanian s most provocative argument is that China has already surpassed the US in terms of economic dominance but we have not yet woken up to this new reality.

The cashiers at your grocery store, the foreman at your plant, the guy tailgating you home on the highway, the telemarketer calling you during dinner, every teacher you've ever had, everyone that's ever woken up beside you, every politician in every country, every actor in every movie, every single person in your family, everyone you love, everyone in this room and you will be dead in a hundred years.