Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cocaine and heroin may be more corrosive still. Here's where organized crime comes in, the cartels and kingpins and Crips and Bloods. These are the principal beneficiaries of drug prohibition; without it they'd be reduced to three-card monte and numbers scams. Legitimate entrepreneurs must sigh and shake their heads in envy: if only the government would ban some substance like Wheat Chex, for example, so it could be marketed for hundreds of dollars an ounce...
This is the story of how Viacom won the battle and how Diller, one of the toughest and savviest Hollywood wizards, let the prize slip away. It is also the story of shattered careers, plunging stock prices and looming corporate shake-ups, all of which are part of the true cost of Viacom's $9.8 billion victory...
...shenanigans continue as Emma, in a scene that appears to be borrowed from "The Fugitive," disappears from her police protection during the St. Patrick's Days parade. It's hard to shake the idea that a great deal of "Blink" is lifted from other films. Take "Blink's most recent predecessor, "Jennifer 8," for example, which recounts the same tale, but with better acting. Uma Thurman's cross-eyed, blank gaze and way of seeing right through people outclass Stowe's blind woman rendition. Since Stowe can't get the right look in her eyes, she distracts our attention...
...article strove conscientiously for objectivity makes its subtle revelations of bias--and it is bias--all the more striking. It repeats a theme often seen in the national media--the bigotry and ignorance of the small town as seen by the big-city reporter, who expects his audience to shake their heads in time with...
...Hopefully [these events] will shake the apathyout of people," added Kaunfer, who is SeniorEditor of The Crimson...