Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been fixing prices for so long, they don't know it's illegal. Government is the No. 1 consumer fraud. I was on to Nixon in '48-he's the symbol of evil to me." If elected to the Senate, Denenberg promised, he would "shake the hell out of that cozy club...
...Banker Beryl Sprinkel urges the Government to "keep our [fiscal and monetary] policy reasonably tight, settle for 5% or 5.5% unemployment, and then the rate of inflation could drift down"-over the next three to five years. Okun sees only one quick way of stopping inflation: "Panic-a real shake-out in commodity markets, partly induced by some real credit difficulties" among speculators. And he gives even that scary solution only about a 1-in-5 chance of actually happening...
...Shake People Up." "Because I was in philosophy, Antioch didn't know what kind of job to get me during work periods. They figured the best thing would be as broad a life experience as possible." That included a stint as copyperson for the Cleveland Press, a summer as an assistant in archaeology at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History classifying artifacts ("I loved that") and in a Maryland mental hospital. Afterward, though she had never written anything but occasional poetry, she roughed out a story about psychological doubles. It eventually became the germ of Mundome...
...author start writing fiction? "I guess because it can do what I used to think philosophy ought to do-shake people up. Get them to question basic assumptions about reality." Or, as Richard warns in another connection, "You couldn't be sure. In the meantime, it was best to take nothing for granted...
Here was a president faced with getting to the bottom of an emerging scandal that he realized might shake the foundations of the Republic. Yet, on the other hand, he was faced with preserving the presidency and, indeed, the nation itself...