Word: shakiest
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...skate past these lapses in taste. But with Scajola's offensive comments, its luck ran out. "The government, as insurance companies would say, has a natural predisposition for accidents," wrote Sergio Romano, a conservative columnist for the daily Corriere della Sera. The Scajola mishap has given Berlusconi his shakiest week in office yet. And after a strong showing by the center-left in recent local elections, the poll-happy Prime Minister has suddenly got shy about releasing his own popularity numbers. Berlusconi began picking up the pieces by naming Giuseppe Pisanu, 65, as the new Interior Minister. More seasoned than...
Fear - and the shakiest of tribal alliances - was stronger than annoyance in Week 8 as the splintering-before-our-eyes holdovers of the Ogakor tribe hewed to the party line and said good-bye to the personal trainer...
...DaimlerChrysler, the world's fifth largest automaker, is already one of the shakiest corporate mergers in recent memory, and in this global age a living warning of the dangers of merging across the pond. The company announced a $512 million loss in its U.S. operations (which, when they were Chrysler, were actually rather profitable) in the third quarter last year, and that figure is expected to double in the fourth quarter. The company has blamed the high cost of launching new vehicles and an increasingly competitive U.S. market...