Word: shaked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...while the rumors have fizzled, the promise of consolidation isn't so easy to shake. U.S. Airways turned up the heat by making a hostile bid for Delta during bankruptcy exactly one year ago, which came in the wake of other failed talks, such as those between United and Continental Airlines in 2006 and United and Delta in 2005. Now with industry fragmentation, too many seats and rising jet fuel prices, analysts and industry experts see consolidation as inevitable...
...quarter: Cheng Ho with a little shake-and-bake on the screen, and he gets down to the 13. The Crimson is threatening again...
...question of whether the Republicans will actually govern better than the Democrats awaits an answer. And a Republican upset in a small Connecticut suburb doesn’t say anything about 2008. But municipal elections, if not indicators of national trends, are microcosms of our political system. Political junkies shake their heads over a sound-bite driven media, fat cats’ hands in politicians’ pockets, and incumbents growing bedsores in their Senate seats. But sometimes, fresh ideas and a good pair of tennis shoes trump conventional wisdom and win elections...
...just for show," Sehgal explains. "You don't have to stand on your chair. The oxygen will drop down to you." The perky attendant runs through various drills, ending with life-vest use. "Do you know swimming?" she asks the boy. He looks around nervously before giving a small shake of his head...
...police chief when the two first met in 1993. "When Giuliani was elected mayor, we had something like 2,200 murders that year," says Adam Walinsky, a law-enforcement expert who helped arrange that first meeting. "He went out to get a guy who was going to completely shake it up. He knew within the first half-hour of conversation that [Bratton...