Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprise announcement boosted Chrysler stock and prompted Chairman Robert Eaton to scrap a scheduled New York auto show speech.TIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirtersays Chrysler is well positioned to fight a takeover because of its profitability, as well as Eaton's financial acumen. Nevertheless, McWhirter says the announcement sent shock waves through a U.S. industry that has never before been targeted by such a bid. Kerkorian already owns 10 percent of Chrysler. Iacocca, 70, said he does not want to go back into management. As for their plans for the firm, a press release provided by Kerkorian and Iacocca indicated...
...shock to all of us," senior captain Sara Simmons said. "If we didn't win, we certainly didn't think we'd be that far off. When the race was over, we were all dumbfounded...
...spread quickly last week that the Tutsi-dominated army was about to attack Kamenge and seven major refugee camps that provide shelter to 200,000 Hutu from Rwanda. Tutsi paramilitary groups may have spread the rumors themselves to help speed their segregation plan. Everyone in Burundi is still in shock after the massacres in Rwanda last year, in which more than 500,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsi, were slaughtered...
...kind of ridiculous," sophomore attacker Liz Schoyer said. "I guess we're all sort of in shock...
...Jenny Jones show, Scott Amedure, 32, was shot to death in front of his trailer at a mobile-home park in Michigan. His alleged killer is John Schmitz, who had appeared on the same Jones segment. Schmitz was told he would be confronted by a "secret admirer"; the shock of discovering that the person who had a crush on him was a man, Schmitz told police later, had "eaten away" at him. The show's producers insist that Schmitz was informed his admirer could be a man or a woman. Jones, in a statement before a taping of her show...