Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These travels do nothing, however, to shake hisextraordinary love for the community in which hehas spent nearly 40 years, he says. "I sat down towrite a poem at the Alhambra in Granada, and whatI wrote about was the students of Dunster House...
...Gorbachev's success in tearing down the old communist order could shake the faith of even the staunchest supporters of Marxism...
...Macintosh computers won wide acceptance for business applications. But Apple's blush has suddenly faded. Because of slowing sales, the company is expected to lay off as many as 800 of its 12,000 employees. Under pressure to revive growth, Apple President John Sculley has launched a top-management shake-up. Two weeks ago, he appointed Michael Spindler, who led the company's successful foray in Europe, as chief operating officer...
Nonetheless, the label that may stick to Weld as the Republican campaign heats up is one he may find difficult to shake: that of a wealthy, blue-blood Republican in the Richardson mold...
Either plan -- a broad capital-gains cut or liberalized IRA deduction -- would cost a fortune. (A bargain capital-gains tax rate would shake loose revenues at first as investors sold to take advantage of it but in the long run come back to bite us.) So it may be that given the deficit, we can afford neither...