Word: shake
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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...
...despite the obvious similarities between Dukakis and Tsongas in substance and in style, Tsongas appears to be making every effort to shake the comparison...
Washington still has many untested weapons at its disposal. It could grant the boat people temporary protection, spearhead an oil blockade or try to rally support for an international peace-keeping mission that would guard against human-rights violations. But as last week closed, it was hard to shake the sense that the Bush Administration was giving up on Haitians -- and their democratic aspirations -- for good...
...insistence that the presidency be founded on the highest dimensions and standards of human character has been the ideal for more than two centuries. When the first President was 15 years old, he compiled for himself 102 "Rules of Civility," which he put in his notebook. Among them: "Shake not the head, feet or legs, roll not the eye, lift not one eyebrow higher than the other; wry not the mouth." Bush -- and his rivals -- should read...
...WEREN'T ASKING for them to shake their little tushes on a catwalk...