Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday of The Game, I was going to organize an event that would bring Harvard to its knees. No, I was not going to streak during The Game, I was going to do something much more exciting than that. I intended to shock both students and administrators, not to mention a few alumni. No one in their wildest dreams thought what I was planning was possible, but the results were sure to be startling for the whole University...
Hills' threat was intended as shock therapy -- to force the European Community to reduce its agricultural subsidies, the issue that has thwarted all recent attempts to forge a new global General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade among the U.S. and 107 other trading partners. As Americans fretted about prohibitively priced Chablis and Europeans contemplated retaliation, puzzled observers tried to sort out a complex question: Who's really to blame...
Reeling from the shock, Harvard watched in horror as junior John Fust pushed the puck past Tracy just 21 seconds later to give the Tigers the lead...
...offensive hopes--dim though they are--rest on wing Nicolas Perreault (16-17-33) and center Dominique Ducharme (13-19-32).This team could shock a few teams this year. It already pulled off a 4-3 upset of Providence, in what Coach Michael Gilligan calls, the team's "best effort...
...more than just symbolic terms, GM's crisis ranks as the most dramatic culture shock in the transition of American industry from the fat years of the postwar era to the lean years of today. During the 1950s, GM's gas-hogging V- 8s and exuberant tail-finned sedans reflected the confidence of a nation newly arrived at superpower status, with seemingly unlimited resources and skyrocketing productivity. "With GM, you were really talking about a bold vision of America," says Harley Shaiken, a professor of work and technology at the University of California at San Diego. Former chairman Charles ("Engine...