Word: shaken
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...offenses. Unlike consumer-products companies such as Nike, which moved relatively quickly to deal with allegations of unethical labor practices in the mid-1990s, Big Oil long resisted calls to clean up its act. BP and Shell were the first to change. In Shell's case, the firm was shaken by two scandals in quick succession: the execution in 1995 of Nigerian poet Ken Saro-Wiwa, who vigorously contested Shell's oil operations in Nigeria, and the company's plans that same year to sink the Brent Spar oil rig in the North Sea. Both sparked huge international protests...
...band D2B. On his way home from a rehearsal session in late July, Big accidentally drove his car into a klong. A passerby jumped into the water, pulled him from the car and performed CPR. And Big?to the relief of hordes of Thai teens?breathed again. Though badly shaken, he was expected to make a quick recovery...
...misnomer. Van Sant respects his audience and subject too much to suggest a single cause for the Columbine killings, and the film is a beautifully nuanced exploration of some of those causes. It is a tribute to Elephant and its director that the viewer emerges, shaken, almost as bewildered as most Americans were on the day of the event itself...
...firms, and not any intermediaries, receive orders by 4 p.m.; and restrict trading of fund shares by insiders. Spitzer, who is scheduled to appear at the hearings, wants an industry overhaul that starts at the top. "We have to shake up fund boards the same way we've shaken up corporate boards," he says. --By Barbara Kiviat
...hospitality and distorting his family life, and is threatening to sue her for libel. Seierstad, whose book has become Norway's biggest nonfiction seller ever, stands by her account of the Khan clan. Whatever the truth, it's not hard to see why her searingly powerful indictment has so shaken the Khans. At one point in the book, appalled by what she regards as their unquestioning acceptance of male superiority, she fumes, "I have rarely been as angry as I was with the Khan family, nor have I had the urge to hit anyone as much as I did there...