Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis had a commanding lead in the polls over then-Vice President Bush, who at the time had not shaken the so-called wimp-factor...
...Shaken by the district setback and disturbed by unconfirmed rumors that yet another uncomfortable revelation about his personal life was about to be published, Uno held a late-night meeting with advisers. The next morning, daily headlines declared, UNO REVEALS PLAN TO RESIGN. Newspapers reported that an agitated Uno told his advisers he could "no longer manage my job" in the face of added revelations...
...last four years, however, a pesky group called the Harvard Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) has shaken things up a bit by nominating its own pro-divestment slate of candidates to oppose the official candidates nominated by the Alumni Association...
...country at any time, such a confrontation between power and protest would be extraordinary. In China, a nation whose tradition is suffused with respect for authority, last week's outpouring of discontent was nothing short of revolutionary. No major power in the postwar period has ever been so rudely shaken -- rocked, in fact, to its foundation -- by the dissent of its populace. Still, on the faces of the hunger strikers in Tiananmen Square and of their millions of supporters around the country, the message was clear: China had crossed a threshold into a new era, where the future was entirely...
When 50 Internal Revenue Service agents swooped down on the New York City headquarters of Jordache Enterprises, spent two days rummaging through files and carted off more than a million documents, the company's executives were shaken but not surprised. They quickly concluded that their rivals at Los Angeles-based jeansmaker Guess, Inc., were involved, and they were right. The IRS raid and a subsequent grand-jury investigation of possible tax violations by Jordache were triggered by tips supplied by Guess to one of the most powerful IRS officials on the West Coast: Ronald Saranow, who then headed...