Word: shaking
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Hindu nationalists shake the country to its foundations...
Still, the security staff doesn't feel Whitley favors or coddles prisoners. "With him you'll get the closest thing to a fair shake," says Michael Gunnells, the assistant warden in charge of security. A year ago, for instance, at Camp J -- home to Angola's incorrigibles -- staff morale had bottomed out in a storm of hurled food, spit and excrement. Whitley responded with a strict set of disincentives. Curse a guard, forfeit canteen privileges. Throw a meal tray, lose your radio. "The burden is on prisoners," says Captain Davy Kelone. "It drives them crazy." That it does. Camp...
...YULETIDE FLURRY OF CHEERY STATISTICS has done nothing to shake Bill Clinton's focus on the U.S. economy as his top priority. The President-elect's first major appointments, expected this week, will be his economic team. Clinton's choice for Treasury Secretary, aides say, is Lloyd Bentsen, the Senate Finance Committee chairman. The senior Senator from Texas, who was nominated for Vice President in 1988, is seen as having the stature and experience to steer Clinton's economic plan through Congress. Investment banker Roger Altman, a Treasury official in the Carter Administration, is said to be the leading contender...
Johnson, questioned outside his office yesterday about the incident, said "That will be handled internally." Johnson, who has not returned phone calls made over the past two months, said he would make no further comment on the guard unit because "I don't get a fair shake from...
...month "stabilization" period during which the powers of the President, the parliament and the government would be redefined. Since Yeltsin would undoubtedly have to impose limitations on the parliament to make the plan work, rebellious deputies seem unlikely to buy it, even if the President agrees to shake up his Cabinet in the bargain...