Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...October 1, Assistant Dean of the College Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle will become the special assistant to James S. Hoyte '65, the associate vice president for affirmative action. The move is the latest shake-up in the College's race relations bureaucracy which Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, the overseer of race relations at the College, has been revamping since last summer...
...really going to hit me until I go outthere to midfield and shake hands with [Yalecoach] Carm [Cozza]," Restic said. "Then I'llknow...
...editorial's opprobrium -- and his role in the controversial White House travel office shake-up last May -- continued to eat away at Foster. According to a top White House official who read the note, Foster bemoaned "the meanness of the editorials in the Wall Street Journal, which has the ability to write whatever they want without consequence." He went on to point out that "no one violated any law or standards in the White House, yet they get accused of doing...
Tandy has been swept up in the personal-computer industry's most savage shake-out ever. Squeezed by falling demand on one hand and a destructive price war on the other, PC makers are realizing their worst nightmare: their once exotic, high-technology products have become little more than cheap, interchangeable commodities. Since the PCs all use basically identical hardware, consumers are no longer picky about what brand of computer they buy so long as the price is right. The result: retail prices are falling an average of 8% every three months. A fully loaded IBM PS/1 computer with...
...Tokyo with stunning success. Led by IBM, Dell and Compaq, U.S. companies sent shock waves through the Japanese PC establishment by trimming prices up to 30%. While Japanese domestic manufacturers, such as Fujitsu and NEC, have responded with deep discounts of their own, they have been unable to shake off the Americans, much to the delight of Japanese consumers...