Word: shakeing
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Even established magazines have felt the need for a boost. Hearst Corp. decided to shake up House Beautiful, Redbook and Connoisseur by appointing new editors. The most notable shift will be at Connoisseur, where editor in chief Thomas Hoving, former head of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be replaced by Gael Love, who edited Fame...
With the U.S. poised on the brink of war, it seemed an odd moment to shake up the nation's military-industrial complex. But that did not deter Defense Secretary Dick Cheney last week from canceling the Navy's A-12 Avenger attack bomber and sending military contractors the clearest signal yet that the Reagan-era good times are over. The old buddy-buddy relationship between the Pentagon and arms makers who blithely exceed contract costs and expect taxpayers to pick up the tab has ended...
...There are definite signs of fear. For 50 years, the American citizen thought he never had to worry about one thing: his little deposit in the bank. Well, he's worrying about it now, and that is not good. You shake that public confidence, and no telling where events will lead...
...will be the maximum-stress test. The extent of the pain will depend on such influences as the outcome of the Persian Gulf crisis. But with too many banks chasing too little business in a slumping economy, the industry is headed for contraction. How the government responds to the shake-out will determine the shape of U.S. banking for the rest of the 1990s -- and beyond...
...economy is also especially vulnerable to shock waves from overseas. A panic in Japan's superheated real estate market would shake Japanese lenders and help trigger a global slump. So could the chaos that would ensue if the Soviet Union's restive republics plunge that country into civil...