Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even established magazines have felt the need for a boost. Hearst Corp. decided to shake up House Beautiful, Redbook and Connoisseur by appointing new editors. The most notable shift will be at Connoisseur, where editor in chief Thomas Hoving, former head of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be replaced by Gael Love, who edited Fame...
...economy is also especially vulnerable to shock waves from overseas. A panic in Japan's superheated real estate market would shake Japanese lenders and help trigger a global slump. So could the chaos that would ensue if the Soviet Union's restive republics plunge that country into civil...
...Walesa, despite his affection for Poland's prewar dictator, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, strikes few people as a Volk-glorifying Fuhrer. But in trouncing candidate-come-lately Stanislaw Tyminski, a returned emigre who offered a form of national salvation as easy as a drug trip, Walesa himself could not quite shake off charges of pandering to emotions...
...Alaska's new Governor, he promised to shake things up. Hickel's done so by ordering a Lincoln Continental and a $2,600 office chair. He also prefers to fly first class where he can. Wife Ermalee has decided that henceforth Governor's House will be termed a Mansion...
...enforcers of his plan to stabilize the country. First he directed the KGB to form a special unit to supervise food deliveries from abroad; then he issued a decree establishing "worker control" groups to clamp down on black-market pilfering of food supplies. Last week he began his promised shake-up of the government leadership by going after the police. Two days later Gorbachev told the Supreme Soviet that he was "boosting the authority and responsibility" of the armed forces...