Word: shaking
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Sweatshops are the fallen angels of capitalism--the pursuit of profit and efficiency gone astray--but they are the product of capitalism nonetheless, and as such they should shake people's unflagging faith in our economic system. The two of us struggle to fathom placing such blind faith in a system which produces enormous income disparities, divides American social and economic life along racial lines and puts a Starbucks on every affluent corner...
...sweatshops shake our faith in our economic systems...
...from him: he lost her exam and offered to give her a B+; she fought with him, won the right to retake the exam and got an A. In fact, defense lawyers in one of the cases Starr brought in the Whitewater probe were worried about getting a fair shake. She also worked for Clinton's G.O.P. opponent when he first ran for Congress...
...that helps jar British theater out of what he dubs its "cycle of boredom," so be it. "I want to write plays that shake you up a little bit," he says, "plays that a film fan would be interested in seeing, like the new De Niro movie." He's already got a lot of them waiting eagerly for the new McDonagh play...
...House was Bently Elliott, and Ben's secretary was a woman in her early 20s named Donna. She adored Reagan. When he came back from long trips, when his helicopter landed on the White House lawn, the sound and whirr of the engine and blades would make our offices shake. We'd all stop and listen. Donna would call out, spoofing the mother in a '50s sitcom, "Daddy's home!" But you know, that's how I think a lot of people felt when Reagan was in the White House: Daddy's home. A wise and brave and responsible...