Word: shake-up
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...very much." Will the reorganization help? Thompson doubts it. The labs do have some inherent porousness ? mostly the results of a college campus-like atmosphere ? yet it is that atmosphere which is critical to attracting the field?s best and brightest in peacetime. President Clinton opposes the shake-up but probably won?t risk a fight over it, not when the larger defense bill passed the Senate 93-5 and the House 375-45. And if the plan won?t slow down Chinese spying much, it is at least a minor blemish on Clinton's record card ? and that...
...mental state. Last week, however, when he fired his fourth Prime Minister in 17 months, even former loyalists joined Yeltsin's opponents in naming the culprit behind the latest beheading: Agoniya. The Russian word is usually translated as agony. But it means death throes. "This is not just another shake-up," said a former top Kremlin aide. "This is the beginning...
Russia's embattled President rose early on Monday to greet Stepashin and Putin at Gorki-9, the presidential dacha outside Moscow. The hour--7:30 a.m.--meant Yeltsin was not seeking a casual conclave. Stepashin and Putin knew what was coming; the shake-up had already surfaced in the Moscow press. Anatoli Chubais--an early Yeltsin ally--had even met with Kremlin aides on Sunday to argue that firing another Prime Minister now, with parliamentary elections set for December and a presidential vote next July, was a dangerous move that could discredit the Kremlin, the government and Russia in general...
Ironically, the HUPD lieutenant responsible for crime prevention, William K. Donaldson, was fired in the wake of the department's May shake...
...Ironically, the HUPD lieutenant responsible for crime prevention, William K. Donaldson, was fired in the wake of the department's May shake...