Word: shake-up
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Robb, 62, was elected president of City Stores Co. in a shake-up by Philadelphia Financier Albert M. Greenfield, 70, who has controlled the sixth-ranking department and specialty-store chain for 26 years. Robb, who started at twelve as a stockboy, stepped up from heading Philadelphia's Lit Bros., biggest of the chain's eleven major links, which range from New York's Franklin Simon to New Orleans' Maison Blanche. An aggressive merchandiser, Robb will try to streamline operations while Greenfield concentrates on expanding outlets. In the six months ending last July, the chain grossed...
...company shake-up and the "durable fire" of his staunch and lovely wife's faith in him help Steve to reforge his faith in business and himself. Author Swiggett understands the paternalistic embrace in which the large, modern corporation holds its employees-but he vastly exaggerates it. His notion that the corporation makes or unmakes the man is on a par with all the determinist devil theories of history which hold that every evil of human life flows from the capitalistic "system," or from the machine, or from sunspots...
...tedious words of it. Then, day after day, while Pravda, Trud and Izvestia printed interminable pages of commentary, Agitprop specialists fanned out across Russia to whip up support among the workers. Russia's bosses were conditioning their subjects to Nikita Khrushchev's plan for the most radical shake-up of Russian industrial organization since the early days of the Soviet regime...
...stored up during Uruguay's Korean war wool boom, the economy is ailing, but most Uruguayans remain complacently sure that the country is somehow bound to muddle through. That is why there are some thoughtful citizens who seriously believe that what Uruguay needs is a wakeup, shake-up type of crisis...
Wide, Wide, Shake...