Word: shake
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Predicts Mary Carryer, senior vice president of international trade services at San Francisco's Wells Fargo bank: "The world is going to shake out to a few large banks with worldwide coverage. By the time the dust settles, those of us who aren't one of those banks will have to form alliances...
Last month Barco announced a shake-up of the military's top brass. Among other things, an army captain has been sentenced to five years in prison for warning the cartel of upcoming antidrug operations...
...most recent snafu involved George Bush's declaration of a stepped-up war against savings and loan crooks. Just days later, Assistant Attorney General Edward Dennis Jr., a key player in the S&L prosecutions, quit. Dennis' bail-out was only the latest in a series of high-level shake-ups at Justice...
...were imported for, or staged locally to enrich, last month's Berlin Theatertreffen, the city's 27th annual festival of productions from around the German-speaking world. Although the doctrinaire Marxism of Bertolt Brecht, Germany's greatest 20th century playwright, has fallen out of fashion, his zeal to shake up bourgeois spectators still seems to inspire his artistic successors...
...shake-out is at hand. Magazines are going under or changing hands at a dizzying rate. Owen Lipstein's Psychology Today suspended publishing in February; struggling monthlies such as CMP's Long Island Monthly and Time Inc. Magazines' Southpoint went out of business; Rupert Murdoch's debt-ridden News Corp. sold the gossipy Star to the National Enquirer and delayed plans to launch its own weekly newsmagazine...