Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told the Rabochaya Tribuna (Worker's Tribune) last week, "People accept rationing coupons and standing in line -- especially during work time -- but not price increases." And the housewife can now vote for a parliamentary representative able to stand up in the Congress of People's Deputies and, if necessary, shake a fist at Gorbachev on the podium. Preoccupied with the nationalities problem and facing a Communist Party Congress in July, he cannot afford another exposed flank...
...similar sobering effect on its students. Says Raymond, an agent-trainee whose last name was withheld to protect him from the genuine criminals he will encounter after he graduates: "When you arrest someone, it hits you: you're going to change someone's life forever. My hands started to shake. For the first time, it seemed real...
...Harvard administration cannot immediately do everything necessary to remedy the lack of faculty diversity, that does not excuse its current lethargy. The Faculty should follow the recommendations of the Verba Report and appoint senior Faculty members in each department to be affirmative action representatives. Such a move would shake up an otherwise stagnant process...
...first, students need to shake up the administration. We would have preferred that MSA had not moved the date of the boycott to avoid staging it during prefrosh week. By exposing one of Harvard's most shameful shortcomings to prospective students, MSA could have put even more pressure on the administration. Nevertheless, we endorse the boycott and encourage all students to participate...
...students comprise 11 of the 23 members of the board of directors and represent two of the four stockholders of the corporation. According to the Coop's by-laws, any seven directors can call a meeting and constitute a quorum. A renegade group of seven student directors could thus shake things up quite a bit if they so chose...