Word: shake-up
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...sudden, three successive deaths shake-up the slumbering small town. First a high school student, then a homeless man and finally Adele Baraclough the local art patron are all found dead. The murders would seem unrelated except for the JUST ASK MONTY campaign pin that graces each corpse. Monty Monteagle, the newly-elected reform-minded mayor, is just one of the town's many suspects...
Though some analysts speculated that the shake-up might ease the way for a sell-off of Time Warner's magazine subsidiary, Levin -- like Nicholas -- adamantly opposes any such move. According to To the End of Time, a sharply critical book by Richard Clurman, a former TIME chief of correspondents, it was Levin who remarked at the time of the merger that "the core ((of the new company)) is not Bugs Bunny, it's TIME magazine." Levin is said by some to believe that sizable layoffs at the magazines last year helped demoralize their staffs unnecessarily. He is also said...
...says he will not seek a second five-year term. Since he does not have to worry about re-election, he can break crockery, step on toes and generally give the organization the shake-up it so badly needs...
...Zagreb's cathedral the next evening, were a bleak reminder that peace will not come easily to Yugoslavia after six months of civil war. The federal military was quick to refer to "an unwanted and tragic event," and the Serb- controlled federal government offered requisite apologies. But a shake-up in the top military command solidifying Serb dominance led to fresh worries that the army might not fully support the cease-fire. As the U.N. dispatched observers over the weekend to monitor the fragile peace, the truce appeared to be holding. Said a European diplomat in Zagreb: "Every quiet...
Noble is running against two deeply-rooted municipal parties under an electoral system that favors incumbents and slates. Her strategy, therefore, has been to portray the existing power structure as clannish and badly in need of a shake...