Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enormous range of grievances thatall came together during these uprisings,"Brinkely says. "It was an effort to shake up thegoverning structure of the university and,indirectly, society...
...personnel shake-ups also raise new questions about the work of President Neil L. Rudenstine, who has spent eight months searching for a replacement for Scott without success. In addition, a search for a new vice president for government, community and public affairs has dragged on for more than a year...
...coup in Latin America, sends markets crashing in some area. The bank's finely tuned hedging strategy is thrown off balance, and it has no choice but to default on its contracts. A whole chain of interlocking obligations snaps, setting off a series of uncontainable defaults that shake the world financial system. The remaining stock markets plunge, companies go bankrupt, and lots of people lose their jobs...
...Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" had more precious little details than you could shake a stick at--unless, of course, you were the conducter! The preceding is a perfect example of the level of humor in currency among the musical-going crowd. Here's another: as a slave in Egypt--would that he really were--Donny Osmond wears a toga-esque outfit, which Pharoah Elvis refers to as "Fruit of the Tomb...
...assassin's bullets shake the country's confidence...