Word: ruckus
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...three-year campaign for a living wage. Greeting President-elect Lawrence H. Summers with a contentious rally from the get-go wasn’t a great idea, and the sit-in’s first few days—with sleep-deprived Yard residents raising a ruckus and a daytime rally accidentally drowning out a Holocaust Remembrance Day reading nearby—seemed to only hurt the campaign, not help it. But over the past five days the tide turned, with the protesters gaining the support of both Massachusetts senators, AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney and nearly every...
...weren't invited to Davos? Well, make a few acquisitions, slash a few thousand jobs and maybe your company can claw its way to the level of the world's top 1,000 corporate titans. Either that or get your supporters to make enough ruckus on the streets outside to convince the power players they're better off meeting you over mulled wine and fondue...
Pearson's project--and the cause of an almighty ruckus in Aniane--was his search for, and acquisition of, some 120 acres of high-quality French grape-growing soil where California wine giant Robert Mondavi could produce its own high-quality French vintages. For Pearson, Mondavi's general manager in France, that turned out to be no easy task in a country where winemaking is an ancestral tradition and anti-Americanism something of a national sport...
...that he and Miles were bosom buddies. If you're interested in Nisenson, read Nisenson; if you're interested in how the record was made, read Kahn; and if you're interested in what makes a piece of quiet, understated music survive four decades of rock, rap and ruckus, listen to the album again--and again and again...
...ruckus broke out, Phil Beck stormed forward and asked to read the document, which Zack grudgingly permitted him to hold. The surprise statement was allowed - and Zack got Ahmann to admit that his device can lead to unreadable votes due to chad buildup, dangling chads and even rubber problems...