Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admired in the course of her travels include Corazon Aquino, Indira Gandhi and Thatcher. "It's been an interest for me to see how women handle power, authority, people, decisions. We are different in how we approach things. A man can sit around a bar and shake liar's dice and discuss problems. The woman doesn't do that. Decision making, I think, is a bit more formal...
...north Chicago neighborhood where he was born. Somewhere in between is his present house, where he lives with his wife Annette and their three children: Rachel, 10, Gabriel, 7, and Eve, 3. "I do regard the law as a noble calling," he elaborates. "But I can't shake the notion that the law is coming ((comin')) up short in its inability to deal with intimate human situations...
...total awards), will be the next target of outrage -- and opportunity -- for enemies of the endowment's funding. Finley, the columnists warned, could become "the Mapplethorpe case of 1990" if her latest request for support is approved. Last week that suggestion of scandal was enough to shake the National Council on the Arts, the beleaguered body that oversees grants recommended by NEA panels. The council voted to postpone until August its decision on all grant applications for performance work...
...Eastern Europe's liberation inspired the shake-ups in Africa's mid-belt, the real detonating force was economics. Each of these African countries overspent badly in the 1970s, suffered plunging commodity prices in the 1980s, and today finds itself flat broke. Desperate for hard currency, each has been forced into structural-readjustment programs, which entail strict and painful austerity measures, in order to obtain loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund...
...eased the control stick back for a gut-wrenching turn and climb, then rolled my fighter above the enemy plane. The California desert spun dizzily when I came zooming down behind him as he tried to shake...