Word: revoltings
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...Rice Krispies treats and ice cream. Then, for the next eight hours, you are fed several bananas and lots of apples: green apples, red apples and yellow apples, spotted and solid apples, Red Delicious and Macintosh. Sometimes you are forced to digest six apples in an evening. You would revolt...
...hunt for deals. In the meantime Beatrice was hit by a roiling European recession in 1992 and a rapid erosion of market share, profits and cash. In the middle of this tumult, Fugett hatched a takeover bid for the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. With Beatrice's big shareholders in revolt, Lewis made her move...
Andreas had to face down a shareholder revolt last week at the ADM annual meeting in Decatur. Declaring that "as Harry Truman said, 'The buck stops with me,'" the chairman apologized for the scandals. Nevertheless, the settlement put paid to an era at ADM, which Andreas and his family have dominated for 30 years. It appears unlikely that Michael Andreas will ever succeed his father. "Even if this is not the end of ADM," says a close business associate of Dwayne's, "this could well be the end of the Andreas reign...
...October 23, 1956, a crowd led by students and workers, soon to be known as freedom fighters, toppled the colossal statue of Stalin that had dominated the main boulevard of Budapest for close to a decade. That act became the symbol of the 1956 uprising, a quasi spontaneous revolt against Soviet occupation (the Red Army had liberated Hungary from the Nazis in 1945, then refused to go home) and against the dictatorial rule of the Hungarian Communist Party led by Matyas Rakosi...
...Israelis. The strongest warning came in July, when Arafat's gendarmes claimed a seventh torture casualty, provoking an anti-P.A. riot in the victim's hometown of Nablus. When the trouble spread to nearby Tulkarem, Palestinian security suppressed the unrest by shooting and killing a protester. The revolt sent shock waves through the P.A. and raised concerns that other insurrections would follow...