Word: shaking
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...first nine months, Riley has re-assigned two high-ranking officers and promoted others in a shake-up of the HUPD's old hierarchy...
TOPICCLINTON DOLE BODY LANGUAGE: Smug, self-confident looks: 3 Disdainful snickers: 6. Deep breaths/squaring jaw: 6 Full-blown guffaws: 4. Anxiously awaiting time for rebuttal: 3 Notetaking: 3. Smirks signalling disagreement: 4, including one shake of the head. Almost wandered off stage: 1. Notetaking: 4 STOCK PHRASES: Brink of/bridge to the new/21st century: 7 times. AWOL: 2 References to American families: 8 times, though never mentioned his own. Using panelists' first names: 11 times, including 3 references to Jason. Medicare, Medicaid, environment, education: 7 times California, host state of the debate: At least 7 times. Dole's $550 billion...
...This shake-up creates both challenges and chances for cardholders--and that means virtually all of us. Consumers like Sue Ruopp, 30, a homemaker in Crestline, California, refuse to pay irksome new fees or higher interest rates. "I have no loyalty," Ruopp says, with words that would bring pain to any marketer's ears. "I will go with whoever has the best deal." She did just that by transferring her $4,000 balance from a Bank of America Visa card that charged 18.9% interest to a Capital One Visa account that carried a 9.9% rate--potentially saving more than...
Despite his shake-up, Johnson oversees a solid operation filled with top portfolio managers. And even as new stars such as Robert Stansky, who took over Magellan, hunker down to chase the Dow, Johnson is orchestrating a three-tiered expansion plan that he hopes will render the vicissitudes of the stock market less meaningful. Part of it involves boosting Fidelity's subsidiary businesses, which range from newspapers (Fidelity owns 117 of them) to limousines and software...
Pity the poor beleaguered cable guy. Direct-broadcast satellites are eroding his turf from the air while the Baby Bells and the burgeoning Internet creep in over the phone system. Worse still, he faces this growing competition while trying to shake a public image only a bit more benign than Saddam Hussein...