Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Johnston's selection was a jolt for the senior, who did not expect to be chosen on the first day of the three-day draft...
Since politicians fear retirement above everything else, the council's electoral inquiry was received as a jolt of reality therapy -- and when the frightened asked, "What do we do now?" the D.L.C. was ready with a litany of remedies. Proceeding from the assumption that the Democrats' "fundamental failure is intellectual" (a view that faults the message rather than the messengers), the Progressive Policy Institute, under the direction of Will Marshall, has published a series of provocative papers that Clinton, for one, has adopted almost wholesale...
Leverett House residents got quite a jolt when a car crashed into a tree outside the house at 2:30 a.m. yesterday...
...jolt of sticker shock from the Japanese could be a boon for Detroit. If the Big Three U.S. carmakers can hold the line on their own prices, they would offer consumers an incentive to buy American...
...Recession. A nonpartisan criticism of Clinton's tax program is that it might help the economy in the long run but would do nothing to jolt it out of the present slump. To do that, the Governor proposes a variety of measures: speeded-up spending on highway construction, new regulations that would prevent banks from foreclosing on homeowners or business people who can at least keep up interest payments on their loans. Generally, these ideas seem helpful but insufficient...