Word: shaken
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Along with his longtime research partner, the late Amos Tversky, he has shaken the founding assumptions of his field. For instance, his research has shown that people do not always act rationally when confronted with economic decisions. When feeling uncertain in a demanding situation, humans may reach the absolute limits of their ability to think, he found...
...that trust may be shaken not so much by the photographs themselves, but by what they reveal about the level of oversight in the operations of U.S. forces. For example, two of the interrogators accused of abuses in the Abu Ghraib scandal are so-called "civilian contractors," men hired by private U.S. firms to whom the military has outsourced such sensitive functions as interrogating suspected insurgents. One of the companies named, the Virginia-based CACI, is still advertising jobs for interrogators on its web site, and the job definition specifies that the candidate would work under "moderate supervision." The phrase...
...What has shaken the food giants to act is surveys like the one from research firm Mintel International showing that 3 of every 5 low-carb dieters say they plan to limit carb intake for life. Half the people who tried a low-carb diet in the past 12 months and 1 in 3 who tried a low-carb diet more than a year ago are still limiting their carb intake, according to a Morgan Stanley study. Says Morgan analyst Bill Pecoriello: "Carb watching should hold pretty steady long after low-carb diets lose their popularity...
...pushes the country classification the most; the drums, when they’re there, seem to say rock more than country. The album’s full of twangy guitars and simplistic lyrical messages and lessons, though, so it would be impossible to say that Lynn and White have shaken the country boat very much...
...harassment, and torments him until he snaps. As Stiles lay on the stage and her co-star, fellow Hollywood denizen Aaron Eckhart (Erin Brockovich, Paycheck) raised a chair as if to strike her, a woman in the front row of the Garrick Theatre shouted: "Do it!" Stiles, 23, was shaken. "It was so frightening," Eckhart says, speaking to TIME the day after the incident. "She was in such close proximity to me and you have to take it personally. It was the most traumatic thing!" It happened again during the third preview show: this time...