Word: shaking
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...documents may confirm their worst suspicions of the Iraqi weapons program. For example, before the Kuwait invasion, the CIA concluded in a secret report that Iraq could cobble together at least one crude nuclear device and detonate it in the western Iraqi desert in a demonstration explosion "to shake the teeth of Saddam's Arab neighbors," as a former senior agency official puts it. Before the latest revelations were made, U.N. officials believed that Baghdad had produced more than a ton of anthrax and botulinum toxin, a small portion of which they suspect has not yet been destroyed...
Such imprecision of language does a great injustice to Ms. Taylor. It not only falsifies her record at Harvard, but it also present a misleading impression of what has driven this recent shake-up in the choral program. It is true that Beverly is pleasant, courteous and good-humored in her conducting role (if that is what is meant by "laid back"), but she is also demanding, rigorous and highly disciplined. She makes singing both a challenge and a joy for the performers. And if there is anything "unique" in her personality, it is, as Richard Dyer has written...
During the next three years, orientation weekdetractors will shake their heads sadly, recallingall the cute Jennys and Kevins that they met thatweek so long ago and haven't spoken to since...
...White House has kicked off a storm of protest by writing to the heads of all federal agencies reminding them that federal workers may donate toBill Clinton's re-election campaign. Campaign finance experts and Common Cause accuse the Clinton Administration of trying to shake down federal workers for campaign contributions. ButWhite House Counsel Abner Mikva, who sent out the letters, denied any wrongdoing. The letters pointed out that a 1993 clarification of the Hatch Act, which forbids federal employees from making campaign contributions to their immediate bosses (such as members of Congress), does not apply to contributions made...
...abandonment of a war that should shake the nation's psyche but the abandonment of the young people who fought it. While at home in the U.S. politicians decided policy and some people prayed for low draft numbers, others in Vietnam were praying just to stay alive. Whether the war was right or wrong meant nothing if you were in the middle of a firefight. Trapped in war's reality, young men lost more than arms and legs; they lost pieces of their soul. We all realized at some point that we would never fully return home again...