For the vice president, a victory in Florida could seal the general election - perhaps he sees that prize as worth the squandering of his already shaky reputation for consistency, while embarrassing the president and attorney general.

Prison Health, with its already shaky reputation, marked a calculated gamble.

He was nicknamed "Black Jack" in tribute to his dark looks, but a "shaky reputation" as an aviator also earned him the epithet "Crasher".

Lincoln Center Theater, however, seems undaunted by Mr. Shakespeare's shaky reputation and is ready to take a chance on the writer, albeit with some formidable Broadway talent to shore him up.

Considering earlier miscalculations that have given deaccessioning its shaky reputation, it is no surprise that curators and directors continue to have trouble assuring the public that the works being sold are peripheral to their collections.

Her sometimes shaky reputation here certainly has not been helped by the prurient material in the two books that have already been published.

Practitioners and fans of the mystery genre have long used Faulkner to shore up its sometimes shaky reputation.

Missed gigs have made Mr. Hubbard's recent reputation a little shaky, but "Hub-Tones," "Red Clay" and the rest of his best are still sending young trumpeters directly to music school.

It is bound to undermine further the shaky reputation of the CSM as a public watchdog.