Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Last week he was at a subway stop in San Francisco, grabbing for the hands of voters as they rushed for the perennially late trains. "In San Francisco politics is a contact sport," says Brown. "All my campaigns added together haven't been this hard! You have to personally shake hands with every single person in this city. And if you don't, they're insulted!" As if to make the point, a commuter comes up to Brown and says, "I think you're going to be mayor. But don't get cocky. It's going to be close...
First, the Crimson must shake off the demons that have haunted its season. Injuries to players like juniors John Vrionis and Kevin Silva--who scored the game-winner against Brown in last year's dramatic Ivy League finale--have plagued the Crimson's play so far this season...
...believes in the U.N. idea despite its shortcomings. Though the institution is "like a company that can't market its products and whose board members put their own interests first," Botha suspects that devolution of peacekeeping authority to the regional level could bring the same strengths as any corporate shake-up nowadays. Najman goes further. He thinks the U.N. will increasingly turn to "contracting" out its duties as dire needs arise, the way NATO shouldered responsibilities in Bosnia...
...course, the big powers that designed the organization could still shake it by the ears if they wished. Yet often they prefer to use the U.N. as a scapegoat for their own lack of resolve, which was what really failed Bosnia for so long. A special debility in handling crises has come from America's modern horror at the possibility that a single soldier might die. Eban notes, "Nothing can happen without the Americans. Everything can happen with them...
...over the long term. He's got a lot of things to deal with: the Caterpillar strike, the Boeing strike, the Detroit newspapers strike. He's really got to produce in those negotiations in order to revive the union." Moody notes that one way Sweeney has promised to shake things up is to spend up to 20 percent of the union budget on recruitment efforts. "This is a huge increase in spending, and ironically for a labor union, it puts Sweeney in the position where he might have to lay off some of the union's administration...