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There is nothing unusual about gadflies and dissidents using yearly stockholder gatherings to air their gripes, while executives wait in patient condescension and other shareholders fidget. But Cestello, 74, received a loud round of applause, and his motion received 16% of the votes -- an alarming vote of no-confidence in management by the standards of such gatherings. "I was pleased with the outcome," says the investor. "At least I didn't get laughed off the stage...
While your carry-on is being X-rayed, you step through the metal detector. It screeches. You dump your coins in a tray and try again. Screech. You remove your metal-rimmed glasses. Screech. As other latecomers fidget behind you, you remove your belt -- and finally pass through. The machine is so sensitive that your tiny buckle...
...major mosque just opposite the Tashkent headquarters of the Muslim Religious Board for Central Asia and Kazakhstan, a gaggle of Uzbek teenagers fidget through 2 p.m. prayers while their elders scowl at a visiting photographer. At an elegant medieval-era mosque just outside town, young construction volunteers stop for a farewell word from mullah Kasemi Bey after a Saturday morning of restoration work. Says Kasemi Bey: "The number of believers is growing. Everybody wants to go to Mecca...
...line of about 20 regular Soviet army troops in padded uniforms and helmets, carrying pale green metal shields and nightsticks, block off Lenin Prospect. Knots of Tadzhik men watch with surly stares, and the soldiers, mostly young Russian conscripts, fidget. Four APCs with idling motors guard the front of the pale brown stucco central-committee building. The day before, mobs smashed its windows and set it on fire. At one side of the debris- littered street, a soldier nonchalantly washes the bloodstains off his shield in a puddle left by melted snow...
...word "colored" instead of "Black" and his attempt to shock Peter with a brief and sketchy account of the single homosexual experience of his youth. If Peter stood for the values of the play's original audiences, he does no longer, and the things Jerry says that make him fidget in his seat do not necessarily make us do the same...