Word: shaken
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...bollixing up so far--is the earth as we like it, with its climate, air, water and biomass all in that destructible balance that best supports life as we have come to know it. Muck that up, and the planet will simply shake us off, as it's shaken off countless species before us. In the end, then, it's us we're trying to save--and while the job is doable, it won't be easy...
...April 2004, but almost certain to be held in late autumn. There lies the road ahead for Turkey as it recovers from the political earthquake triggered on July 8, when Ozkan set off the wave of resignations. With the country's economy on life support and investor confidence badly shaken, Cem and Dervis are - with their considerable international credibility - critical to Turkey's immediate future. Their presence is reassuring, too, as Turkey struggles to meet E.U. membership criteria, commands the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and possibly plays a vital role in any future U.S. attack on Iraq...
Since fall this year, discoveries of misleading accounting and fraud by such prominent corporations as Enron, Xerox and WorldCom have profoundly shaken investors’ confidence, causing stock prices to plummet...
...team stuck together through good times and bad. When twin rowers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were shaken by the death of their 23-year old sister Amanda in mid-June, every one of their teammates took a break from training to attend the wake in the twins’ hometown of Greenwich, Conn. The twins carried on to Henley, with Tyler serving as one of the team’s spares and Cameron as a member of the Harvard ‘A’ four that reached the Britannia Cup final...
...Restoring the now-shaken faith of investors may take years. The "lure of heady profits" described by Bush in his speech is, in fact, the driving force of capitalism - and it is entirely inseparable from the faith that undergirds all private investment. Reforms under discussion in Washington can address abuses; it remains to be seen whether the president's plea for conscience will eliminate excesses. (On this score the President's words are wishful rather than descriptive - there's been plenty of capitalism without conscience, and character has never been a precondition for wealth.) But nothing Washington is able...