Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shake-up inspired talk that Sony (1994-95 sales: $44.8 billion) might now follow the lead of fellow Japanese giant Matsushita, which sold control of MCA and its Universal Studios to Seagram last April for $5.7 billion. "The real significance of Schulhof's ouster is that it is the last nail in the coffin of synergy between hardware and software," says analyst Porter Bibb, who follows the entertainment industry for the firm Ladenburg, Thalmann. "You can count the days until the movie business is sold...
...attempted to deploy the spacecraft's main, 16-ft.-wide, umbrella-like antenna--which had been tucked away during the Venus encounter to protect it from solar radiation--three of the antenna's 18 ribs got stuck. Despite more than 13 months of ingenious and increasingly desperate measures to shake these ribs loose, the antenna, which had been capable of transmitting 134,400 digital bits per second (or a complete image in about a minute), remains unusable...
Walesa behaved rudely toward his opponent, refusing to shake his hand during television debates and referring repeatedly to his service as Minister of Youth Affairs under the communist regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski. "He is a man identified with a gang of thugs," Walesa growled. In a society that values courtly manners, the old electrician's style grated. "He did not realize that democratic power means persuading people," says Geremek...
...fine job of linking head to body: he plays, movingly, a homosexual priest who flees the country rather than face public exposure. In the moments when Murray trembles over a hastily packed suitcase, Hare shows he can do more than write an intelligent and noble play; he can shake the soul...
...always the last player on and off the ice, and the last in line to shake hands after games, according to Stone...