Word: shaking
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...first exhibition after the opening of its disappointing new tower galleries last summer. It is billed as a pioneering effort. This is true only in a bureaucratic sense: access to works in Russian museums has become a good deal easier since the collapse of communism. The organizers' ambition to shake the contents of every provincial museum in Mother Russia into the Guggenheim has produced more footnotes than masterpieces. Much of the best work in it will be familiar to visitors who saw "Paris-Moscow, 1900-1930" in Paris in 1979, or any of the exhibitions of the Russian avant-garde...
...least one editor said yesterday the stringof controversies could serve to shake-up the LawReview...
...insurers. Before the storms hit, the industry had been embroiled in a long and painful price war. Since 1987, property-casualty premiums paid by households and businesses have dropped an average of 40%. The intense discounting, and the sluggish profits that went with it, has touched off an industrywide shake-out. State Farm, the nation's largest property-casualty insurer, has racked up underwriting losses of $7.2 billion in the past four years, due largely to price competition and rising claims. In response to softening profitability, Aetna Life & Casualty will pare 4,800 jobs from its payroll by 1994, including...
...very least, I thought he might shake up the system in this election. I was willing to give him some serious consideration come November. But his wimpy July exit from the race squelched my sentiment faster than a tractor wheel could squash a cow pattie...
...this environment, Republicans resembled a drowning man willing to grasp even the sharp blade of a sword. "I'll be thrilled if Perot gets back in," says a Bush adviser. "We're losing this contest, and we need something dramatic to shake things up." Because Clinton is so far ahead in the two most populous states, New York and California, a few hopeful G.O.P. analysts were whispering about the possibility of Bush's carrying enough smaller states narrowly to gain an electoral-college majority while Clinton won the popular vote...