Word: shaken
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...home state of Baden-Wüerttemberg in November for help and was rejected. Hearing news of Merckle's death, Baden-Wüerttemberg's conservative premier, Günther Oettinger, said the state had lost a great entrepreneur. "News of Adolf Merckle's death left me deeply shaken," he said...
...Premier Wen Jiabao confessed to being particularly worried about unemployed workers and university graduates. Even the head of the country's Supreme Court warned judges to take social stability into mind when passing rulings. Overseas, too, worry swelled about just how deeply China's fragile social compact might be shaken by the experience of economic hard times for the first time in 30 years. The Obama administration should have a contingency plan for "what we would do if there's a major collapse of the political order," Roderick McFarquar of Harvard, one of the world's most respected China scholars...
...landmark operation. That's because transplanting a face transforms a patient's identity. Even though differences in the underlying bony structure mean the recipient is unlikely to resemble the donor once the procedure is completed, it's impossible for the patient's sense of self not to be profoundly shaken. "Picture yourself as a person who has received a face transplant," says Dr. Eric Kodish, the team's lead bioethicist. "Now use your moral imagination...
...made the rather dire pronouncement that “there would be a cost if suitable measures are not taken” by India’s neighbors to curb such attacks. The rage of Mumbaikars and Indians in general is understandable. This crime against humanity in Mumbai has shaken India, its neighbors, and its friends. However, it would be a greater tragedy if we let this act of terrorism wash away years of difficult diplomacy and confidence-building measures between the two nations. Rather, this disaster just might provide Pakistan and India with a chance to forge a stronger...
...business. He won his brother John’s vacated Senate seat in 1962—one he has held ever since. Soon thereafter, the freshman senator and his family were subjected to tragedy after tragedy—Ted’s own steadfastness a reassurance to a nation shaken by the assassinations of his brothers John and Robert. Indeed, Kennedy has come to be defined by his perseverance. Through scandal, personal loss and political disappointment, he had become unmistakably the most prominent American voice for affordable health care and one of the most influential figures in Washington...