Word: shake-up
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...year after a personnel shake-up in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Robert G. Gardner, chairman of the department, said yesterday he feels, his department is "coming along...
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Sovietologists agreed that the shake-up was highly significant-but of what? Some Western commentators jumped to the conclusion that it was a triumph for Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's middle-of-the-road policies at home and detente abroad as against Shelepin's supposedly hard-lining Stalinism. Actually, Shelepin has consistently praised Brezhnev not only for his "vast personal contribution" to economic and political cooperation with the West but also for his handling of key domestic issues...
...That shake-up will be paced by legislation now pending in Congress that in many ways is even more sweeping than the stringent measures passed during the New Deal in reaction to the stock market excesses of the Roaring Twenties. The new competitive era for Wall Street arrives as brokers scramble for capital to offer fresh investment ideas in new ways to U.S. investors...
...organization that persists in regarding the KGB as a serious threat. In this respect, Angleton's departure is reminiscent of the fate of a fictional counter-intelligence man, George Smiley, the sad hero of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Fired during a staff shake-up at the British Secret Service, Smiley was later called back to root out a suspected "mole," or traitor, who had burrowed deeply into his old organization. The mole resembles Kim Philby, the famed British double agent. It was Angleton who provided some of the information that enabled the British...