Word: shaken
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...barracks - where no one was reported killed in the blasts - jeered Vice President Atiku Abubakar, forcing him to abandon an attempt to address them. Early assertions that the explosions were set off by a fire spreading from a nearby market were "premature," said Defense Minister Theophilus Danjuma. As the shaken, rumor-filled city grieved for its dead, the commander of the Ikeja barracks appeared on state television and denied that the blasts were the start of a coup attempt against President Olusegun Obasanjo. As the week ended, the embattled leader?s troubles grew when national police - citing pay and other...
...problem is shaken investor confidence - in companies' revenues and whether they're real or a product of the same kind of financial adventuring that Enron apparently relied on all those years. Investors are taking hard second looks at earnings statements - or at least promising to - and manipulation-prone numbers like EBIDTA are being stacked up against more implacable measures of corporate health like cash flow. The result is harder questions and more skepticism - can, say, Ford and GM really make money selling cars, or are they relying too heavily on their financing operations? - and it's all coming...
...concerns of the average person. In a New York Times poll last June, 57% of those surveyed said the Administration's policies favored the rich, and 63% said Bush was a "typical Republican." Though his public approval soared after Sept. 11, White House officials fear Bush has not entirely shaken the idea that he cares more about corporations than about the people who work for them. Kenny Boy reminds folks of that...
...sweeps, stopping whoever wasn't in motion. Sanders was careful not to pause. Even so, over the course of three months, he was searched twice. He was polite and compliant; he joked about how his orange wallet looked nothing like a gun. He was clean both times but so shaken he had to sit and catch his breath...
...Person of the Year [Dec. 31-Jan. 7]. New Yorkers are the most resilient, compassionate and extraordinary people anywhere. In times of hardship and tragedy, we come together, and the mayor has led the way. He has been a tower of strength for all of us who were frightened, shaken, sorrowful and depressed. FRANCINE M. SCHWARTZ New York City...