Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with using shock tactics to get a message across is that they must get more shocking each time. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has taken its antifur campaign beyond nudes on billboards. During fashion week in New York City, 15 male and female models from the Boss agency, which has declared itself "fur free," are planning to create a living PETA billboard. The models (including Calvin Klein poster boys MARCUS SCHENKENBERG, third from left, and JOEL WEST, fourth from right) will climb out of limos, drop their white terry-cloth robes in public...
...even IBM could withstand the seismic shifts that rocked the industry in the early 1990s. As personal computers increased in power, many customers began moving their data-processing chores to smaller, desktop systems. The shock waves bent many "big iron" manufacturers out of shape, including Prime Computer and Control Data Corp., which stopped making mainframes after heavy losses. Many companies like Wang Laboratories and Unisys have largely switched from hardware to software. The biggest fallen giant is Digital Equipment Corp., which last week reported a larger than expected quarterly loss of $66 million. Once the No. 2 computer maker after...
...time member of a political journal at Harvard, it didn't come as much of a surprise to me when Peninsula published its recent "enemies list." What did surprise, and indeed, shock me, was Joshua Kaufman's response in these pages ("Naming Names: Peninsula's Fascists, Opinion, October...
...still a little in shock," he said, but added that he went on with his normal schedule yesterday...
...night he killed her was "a statement the young girl made to me while walking her up the embankment: 'Just don't do me like my Dad.'" A family friend yelled, "Burn in hell, Davis!" and Davis' lawyer covered her face with her hands. After a second of frozen shock, Polly's father Marc Klaas leaped from his seat, but he was restrained and led from the courtroom...