Word: shaken
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...another sport, the league has shaken that image...
...over my sneakers, shared a cab ride with three girls intent on making “sexual” the English language’s most-used adjective, and proceeded on to the airport for a 6 a.m. flight. Next thing I know I’m being shaken awake by a beautiful stewardess named Michlain (yeah, I asked for the spelling...
...Patrick apologized for the call, during which he asked Rubin to support ACC’s request for an infusion of Citigroup cash. It is, however, deeply unsettling that Patrick thought such a call would be ethically permissible in the first place. Though our confidence in him has been shaken, we believe that Patrick’s governorship still holds much promise. We still believe in his agenda, but we worry that his ethical lapses haven’t reminded the constituents he pleaded to “check back in” to politics during his campaign why they...
...valuations remain decidedly unattractive in most markets, especially in places like Latin America, Russia, India and China, which had risen almost relentlessly in recent months. Most equity markets shot up with so little volatility that speculators were encouraged to borrow and bet with ever greater abandon. Now, with confidence shaken by the belated realization that risk is not dead after all, they will be less inclined to ignore the reality that the global economy and corporate profit growth are likely to be far more disappointing than their giddy optimism led them to believe...
...plans to visit Central America, the demons of corruption, drug dealing and murder there that have long been kept under wraps, either by official complicity or negligence, are beginning to attract public scrutiny. Eight brazen and grisly murders -three Salvadoran congressmen and their driver, and four Guatemalan policemen -have shaken the two countries' governments and shed light on the criminal underworld operating with impunity from inside police forces...