Word: shaking
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Wall Street, Washington and investors around the world will be watching the market with nervous anticipation to see whether it can shake off its anxiety attack. The Federal Reserve will monitor events carefully to determine whether it should come to the rescue with a dose of easier money, as it did in 1987 to restore confidence. One fervent hope was that high-rolling investors would come roaring back into the market, looking for bargains. But while it was easy to attribute last week's chiller to everything from program trading to superstition about Friday the 13th, there was a deeper...
...jolts to NBC's once happy morning family. The turmoil began early this year with the leaking of an internal memo in which Gumbel bluntly criticized several of his Today colleagues, notably weatherman Willard Scott. Egos were still being massaged when the show went through a behind-the-scenes shake-up: NBC Sports president Dick Ebersol was given new responsibilities as the executive in charge of Today, an unusual and controversial appointment for someone outside the News division. Then came Norville's unseating of veteran John Palmer as anchor of the Today newscasts. Norville's sudden prominence (unlike Palmer...
...were outside the ticket entrance when the whole stadium started to shake...I first thought the whole crowd was stomping, but when I looked up I knew it was an earthquake...
...other ruling Politburo members also lost their jobs in a shake-up during a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee, but changes in East German policy from Honecker's course were unlikely...
...campus-wide consciousness raising poster campaign could bring the lactose intolerants out of the woodwork. With mass backing, we could shake the ivy off the walls of the University...