Yesterday the point man, Yosano Kaoru, caused a stir by hinting about raising the minimum age for drawing benefits and reducing amounts paid.
Chris Perez of the Cleveland Indians recently created a media stir by chastising local fans for not supporting his first-place ball club.
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Last September, Lady Gaga caused quite a stir by showing up to the MTV Video Music Awards in a dress made entirely of meat.
Two years ago, America's second-largest malpractice underwriter, St Paul, created a stir by announcing that it would pull out of the malpractice business altogether.
Long gone are the days when a manufacturer was able to create a real stir by unveiling an all-new model at a specific motor show.
Mr Atta Mills served as vice-president to Jerry Rawlings between 1997 and January 2001 and had previously created a stir by saying that if elected, he would consult with the former president.
Late last month, Reckitt Benckiser created a stir by unexpectedly announcing that its Suboxone tablet for treating opioid dependence will be withdrawn from the US market sometime over the next six months.
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He had cleverly created a stir by soliciting pledges from normal people to build a dome over the entire city of Chicago that would be deployed during the cold months of winter.
Dhoni caused a stir by opening with Harbhajan and the off-spinner troubled Matthew Hayden - who needed James Hopes to run for him after appearing to pull a hamstring in the first over - and Gilchrist by extracting sharp turn.
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Ben Bernanke and his political buddies attempt to stir recovery by doubling down on the low rates and devalued dollars which caused the downturn.
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Faced with the facts, Ginsberg and her team developed Stir Events by Match.com, where singles can casually mingle while taking a cooking class, going on a scavenger hunt, or hitting the bowling alley.
What stir is caused by other writers, besides Mr Houellebecq, is thin.
Their book caused a stir in Britain by showing, with copious graphs and statistics, that inequality is associated with all manner of social ills.
Sania Mirza, 19, from Hyderabad, has so far risen to 34 in the women's rankings, and has caused a stir as much by what she wears on court as her performances.
And it tried to stir up patriotic fervour by having its Olympic gold medallists parade through the territory.
She was an unlikely villain, since she was at the time making a stir in American museum circles by demanding a significant change to acquisition policies.
Her comments came after Canada's Deputy Prime Minister John Manley caused a stir on the royal tour by suggesting the Queen should be his country's last monarch.
That being so, the remaining question is whether Mr Wilson acted with the intention to stir up racial hatred as defined by the Act.
It's the old ploy to stir public support for all government spending by shutting down vital services first.
However the greatest stir, of course, was provoked by Peter Robinson's suitably self deprecatory account of his inadvertent plunge into the Koi carp fish pond in his back garden.
He caused a stir in 1973, aged 60, by saying that people aged over 65 should be prepared to accept death and not think of ways of preserving their lives for a few months.
Another item likely to stir excitement is an 1892 Winchester carbine used by Chuck Connors in his TV series The Rifleman, which aired on ABC from 1958-63.
To take one much-quoted example, Charles Clarke caused a stir in academic circles when he was education secretary by saying education for its own sake was "a bit dodgy".
Mr. Mazzola, for his part, says his brainstorm to add a stirrer to a brewer was inspired by his grandmother, who would always stir whatever she was cooking on the stove.
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Even more worrying, the speech, delivered to some 120 people in Mr Hohmann's constituency, caused a stir only after it was later found on the internet by a Jewish woman in America.
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Last April the U.K.-based Carphone Warehouse caused a stir when it announced it was offering "free broadband" by bundling an online connection with its phone service at no extra cost.
By contrast, modest black-hole activity can stir things up and encourage the formation of the kinds of elements (carbon, oxygen and so on) that are essential for life as we know it.
While the professors have made quite a stir in the press, Corning points out that the fiber produced by the professors has not come up to the quality of the existing Corning fiber--inferior in the important broad band qualities needed for carrying the varied communications of the future.
AirAsia's entry is likely to stir up competition in India's domestic aviation market which is also hit by high operational and finance costs and, lately, a drop in passenger traffic.
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