Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday Times of London and then of the daily Times. But in 1982 Harold Evans was forced out after a much publicized clash with the paper's new owner, Australian-born press mogul Rupert Murdoch. Last week the media wheel of fortune took an ironic turn. In a shake-up that had the New York City publishing world abuzz, Evans was named publisher of Random House, the nation's largest producer of trade books. Among his first assignments: editing the memoirs of Rupert Murdoch...
...really stuff I talk about casually," Simon says, measuring the words like a jeweler weighing gold. There is a Saints love song called She Moves On, in which a man falls victim to a woman's witchery and pays the price: "I fall to my knees/ Shake a rattle at the skies." But the pain, which undoes him, also releases him: Simon takes the high ground. "That song is close to my heart," he admits. "Too close to the heart. It's about men being afraid of women's anger. It felt pretty real...
BUSINESS: Air carriers face a major shake...
...would pump up women. Not only did the song become the unofficial anthem of the feminist movement, but women and girls seemed to take the words literally and headed off to the gym. In the two decades since, female attitudes toward fitness and athletics have undergone a vigorous shake-up. Across the country, women are working out, running hard, even pumping iron. And they are doing it not just to look attractive but also to gain strength and a sense of self-sufficiency. They have discovered the secret pleasures long enjoyed by athletic men: the heady, sweaty, solitary...
...This campaign is about good government," says DeJong. "I think Billy Bulger represents bad government. He does not allow television cameras in the chambers of the state Senate. He will not debate me, and will not even shake my hand. He is arrogant and narrow minded, not someone who respects democracy...