Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That reaction would not have saved Saddam in any case, though. Strong as the Arab anger was, it was not quite sufficient to shake the governments (Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria) that have made major troop commitments to the coalition. The U.S. and its European allies suffered little if any public backlash against the war. In retrospect, generals played down too much the inevitability of civilian deaths in any bombing campaign. But Westerners, while shocked, seemed to accept the explanations that the U.S. was not directly targeting civilians; that Saddam in contrast was deliberately putting them in harm...
...deadlock lasted 24 seconds. Drury, adding another dimension to his shake-and-bake skating style, gained control of the puck in a crowd just long enough to dump it under Rogles' left...
With the U.S. poised on the brink of war, it seemed an odd moment to shake up the nation's military-industrial complex. But that did not deter Defense Secretary Dick Cheney last week from canceling the Navy's A-12 Avenger attack bomber and sending military contractors the clearest signal yet that the Reagan-era good times are over. The old buddy-buddy relationship between the Pentagon and arms makers who blithely exceed contract costs and expect taxpayers to pick up the tab has ended...
...There are definite signs of fear. For 50 years, the American citizen thought he never had to worry about one thing: his little deposit in the bank. Well, he's worrying about it now, and that is not good. You shake that public confidence, and no telling where events will lead...
...will be the maximum-stress test. The extent of the pain will depend on such influences as the outcome of the Persian Gulf crisis. But with too many banks chasing too little business in a slumping economy, the industry is headed for contraction. How the government responds to the shake-out will determine the shape of U.S. banking for the rest of the 1990s -- and beyond...