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  • Indeed a shake-up was needed and voters have demanded one. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a major shake-up of management, chief operations office becomes chief executive designate.
  • In an internal Labour group document leaked to the Evening Press last year, it was claimed the Government-imposed shake-up of the council had caused divisions among party members.
  • The paper calls for an urgent shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly.
  • He went on to intimate that he was indeed contemplating a shake-up of the company.
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  • The shake-up aims to recast IBM as a federation of flexible and competing sub-sidiaries.
  • A shake-up of vehicle excise duty could see the tax being split into two tiers. The Sun
  • It marks the start of a top-level shake-up that should save £250,000 a year from 2007 onwards.
  • He also called for a shake-up of restrictive working practices. The Sun
  • Pirate radio was about to be superannuated by the BBC shake-up that would give rise to Radio One.
  • My job did not survive the shake-up.
  • War widows and widowers will receive more generous payouts, and rights are to be extended to same-sex partners, under the biggest shake-up of armed forces pensions since the 1890s.
  • The Senate, says Mr Howard's Chief of Staff, needs a shake-up because it's stymieing the Coalition's reform agenda.
  • I think we need really a significant shake-up, and a change in the processes and operations of the agency.
  • Systems topple, statues walk, long-serving political incumbents take a hike in a huge global shake-up.
  • In south Glasgow, two secondaries are beginning a rolling programme which is aimed at thwarting a major shake-up by Strathclyde.
  • The shake-up would also outlaw cigarette vending machines in pubs, clubs and hotels. The Sun
  • A shake-up of vehicle excise duty could see the tax being split into two tiers. The Sun
  • The radical move forms part of a shake-up in licensing laws which will see the power to grant liquor licences transferred from magistrates to local authorities.
  • Investors hope the boardroom shake-up has not damaged the bank for the long term. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bin wagons, rubbish bins and boxes are all in line for a major shake-up to smooth the way for kerbside recycling.
  • I am out to give the public good, healthy mental shake-ups.
  • I want to see real improvement in the support and services offered to the recently bereaved, and this will result in the biggest shake-up of the coronial system in 100 years. Government doubles financial support for bereaved
  • Thinking about it, it is perhaps time for a general shake-up of road names and signs in this area to make them more indicative of their use.
  • Small investors demanding a management shake-up are also likely to remain friendless in the ring. Times, Sunday Times
  • Opponents say another shake-up is the last thing that schools need. Times, Sunday Times
  • The paper calls for an urgent shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly.
  • A productivity shake-up appears to be taking place that could boost the economy in the 1990s.
  • Indeed a shake-up was needed and voters have demanded one. Times, Sunday Times
  • The company is undergoing a radical shake-up.
  • I predict this year will see a shake-up in the upper echelons of the men's game. Times, Sunday Times
  • The motive behind the shake-up has been to improve post-16 education.
  • An administrative shake-up five years ago which decentralised the services of all the Shepherd divisions meant that relatively few people were left in the building to administer group functions.
  • Indeed a shake-up was needed and voters have demanded one. Times, Sunday Times
  • But above all, he needs to deliver a dramatic and lasting shake-up of the entire political system. The Sun
  • This once great festival has been slipping for several years and it really does need a major shake-up.
  • Mr Duxbury took over responsibility for burial services this year after the council engineered a managerial shake-up to try to improve services.
  • The company shake-up shows Singo's punting on a fourth network.
  • A raft of ill-judged takeovers had left the company mired in debt and in need of a shake-up. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sinclair's likely departure will raise further questions about how last week's shake-up was handled and what long-term dissatisfaction may fester among others who lost out.
  • The retention of Interior Minister Mansour al Essawy, seen by some as embodying the previous regime, is likely to further vex demonstrators and diminish the intended impact of Mr. Sharaf's cabinet shake-up. Egypt's Leader Names New Ministers
  • Food giant Hillsdown Holdings added 8p to 130p after a maintained dividend forecast and boardroom shake-up.
  • They offered to back a shake-up of the education system which is opposed by up to 50 diehard lefties. The Sun
  • His earthly life ended with a literal shake-up. Times, Sunday Times
  • A shake-up for the planning system is one of the few ways that the Government can exert a direct influence over energy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The struggles come amid a boardroom shake-up. Times, Sunday Times
  • W idly compared those divisions to the one that people had long used to make sense of Percy Shelley, the opposition between idealism and skepticism that received its own categorical shake-up with the 1980s stress on Percy's language, which did not so much sublate idealism and skepticism as reorient the discussion around a deconstructive figuring of tropes preceding either of those terms. The Sorrows of Young Wieboldt
  • Ruis is behind the shake-up that has replaced the retailer's dowdier lines with sought-after high street and designer names such as Mint Velvet and Denmark's Bruuns Bazaar. John Lewis profits bounce back as store defies gloomy climate
  • The Prime Minister's speech today signals that there will be a shake-up in the cabinet.
  • A raft of ill-judged takeovers had left the company mired in debt and in need of a shake-up. Times, Sunday Times
  • A separate planned shake-up of Executive departments would aim to ensure that civil servants are only answerable to one minister.
  • A productivity shake-up appears to be taking place that could boost the economy in the 1990s.
  • But, following a shake-up of the board and some work being undertaken on the green, the axe has been staved off for the time being.
  • College principals, head teachers and parents in Hampshire will today find out the details of the biggest shake-up to the country's education system in 60 years.
  • The headline read "Local council plans shake-up".
  • The headline read "Local council plans shake-up".
  • The paper calls for an urgent shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly.
  • THE honours system is long overdue for a shake-up. The Sun
  • The only thing that will save the company is a thorough shake-up of the way it is run.
  • The biggest shake-up of the qualification since it was introduced will make the GCSE structure overwhelmingly modular. Times, Sunday Times
  • I predict this year will see a shake-up in the upper echelons of the men's game. Times, Sunday Times
  • His earthly life ended with a literal shake-up. Times, Sunday Times
  • The arrival of the new baby caused a thorough shake-up of their family life.
  • Commissioner Fivaz described opposition from what he called anonymous police officials and certain police unions to the impending shake-up in the South African Police Service, as disappointing. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The shake-up is contained in a review of local taxation drawn up by an all-party Parliamentary group.
  • The shake-up would also outlaw cigarette vending machines in pubs, clubs and hotels. The Sun
  • Professor Peter Crome, chair of the audit's steering group, said the report "provides further concrete evidence that the care of patients with dementia in hospital is in need of a radical shake-up". Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'
  • But above all, he needs to deliver a dramatic and lasting shake-up of the entire political system. The Sun
  • A shake-up of vehicle excise duty could see the tax being split into two tiers. The Sun
  • Unlike his predecessor, Bienvenu managed to survive his own spy scandal and its ensuing shake-up.
  • The county's police force is recruiting civilian jailers - or custody support staff - as part of a shake-up of its custody services.
  • Before the shake-up of Blackburn's roads to create the orbital route in 2001, Freckleton Street bridge carried traffic from King Street to Bolton Road.
  • He has faced setbacks in what he calls an "ambitious" plan, including a management shake-up at the core French operations. Carrefour Faces Rowdy Protesters
  • Last week three of his top staff departed after a radical management shake-up. Times, Sunday Times
  • It predicted a big shake-up in the NGO world -- apparently there are too many organisations out there chasing too little money. THE EXECUTION
  • Aside from the worry over the "whisperers," there is the perception that in the shake-up of the ministries - which are distributed among the various parties represented in Wahid's cabinet - civil servants are being replaced by political appointees.
  • That said, this is shaping up as such an awful situation that, if the top kill doesn't work, you can expect DRAMATIC ACTION (for the sake of dramatic action if nothing else), which means bureaucratic shake-ups, new policies, new edicts, new bluster and bloviation, and almost certainly at least one human sacrifice. Gulf oil spill: Who's in charge?
  • The only thing that will save the company is a thorough shake-up of the way it is run.
  • A shake-up for the planning system is one of the few ways that the Government can exert a direct influence over energy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Often in the past Ferguson has spoken of the importance goal difference might one day play in the title shake-up. ESPNsoccernet
  • There has been the shake-up of the investment world - the retail distribution review's yawnsome title belied its radical intent. Times, Sunday Times
  • Pirate radio was about to be superannuated by the BBC shake-up that would give rise to Radio One.
  • The paper calls for an urgent shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly.
  • A shake-up in key leadership posts and waning popular support could prevent Mr. Putin's administration from carrying out overdue economic reforms or exercising fiscal discipline, some observers said.
  • With Inter beating Juventus 2-0 on Friday night, Milan knew they had to win to stand any chance of remaining involved in the title shake-up. Soccerway.com
  • Late night eateries will have to secure a license before dishing up hot food to hungry revellers as part of a major shake-up of licensing laws.
  • The French-based company charged with tripling the level of recycling in Sheffield over the next three years has outlined a shake-up to ensure it hits the Government-imposed target.
  • The Prime Minister's speech today signals that there will be a shake-up in the cabinet.
  • The move is one of a number of measures introduced by Burnley Council as part of a shake-up of their waste collection services.
  • He went on to intimate that he was indeed contemplating a shake-up of the company.

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