Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...close-you-could-taste-it end. Instead, the audience had to sit through an overblown monologue by a minor character and a boring ballet (featuring a busty, less-than-agile camel) that turned into the Pudding's usual Rockettish finale. Throughout this ordeal, all I could do was shake my head...
...what did the shake-up mean? Most Silicon Valley analysts took it as a signal that Apple, which lost $69 million in the fourth quarter of last year, had abandoned its behind-the-scenes effort to merge with Sun Microsystems, at least for now. (Sun was reportedly offering a meager $23 a share for Apple stock, which closed last week at 291/4.) "Amelio's history shows that he emphasizes turning around companies, not selling them off," says consultant Tim Bajarin of Santa Clara, California...
...gives the appearance of a fresh start, but Amelio cannot change the fundamentals of the company," says Richard Shaffer, editor of Technologic Partners Newsletter. Apple is trapped as a niche player in the very PC market it helped create, he says. In other words, watch for the ground to shake further...
...Some people carry the virus for years without experiencing any ill effects; the author of one recent study suggests that they never will. Two weeks ago, European researchers announced that some babies born with HIV (an inheritance from their HIV-positive mothers) appear to be able to shake the virus out of their systems. Some people even seem to be totally immune to infection despite repeated, prolonged exposure to HIV. (See TIME's photo-essay "Access to Life...
...have been one of the slogans of the United Auto Workers in their 17-month strike against Caterpillar. Since the strike ended in early December, the firm has forbidden incendiary slogans like "Families in Solidarity" and suspended dozens of union employees for infractions as tiny as failing to shake a foreman's hand with sufficient alacrity. A 52-year-old worker who failed to peel union stickers off his toolbox fast enough was threatened with loss of retirement benefits...