Word: shakedowns
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...rush of new firms into this flourishing market will result in a tumultuous battle for profits, and possibly some company failures. Says William Neal, group vice president of Automatic Data Processing Inc. in Clifton, N.J.: "There is going to be a tremendous shakedown and consolidation in this industry...
...saga grows all the time. Last year Illinois Corrections Director Gayle Franzen had to mount a shakedown like a military maneuver to wrest control of Stateville Correctional Center from the inmate gangs who utterly ran the place. Says Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz: "One of the major issues on the prison-reform agenda is how to get the prisons back in the hands of the correction people. Too many prisons are in the hands of inmates." Far too many of the abominations associated with prisons turn out to be not flukes but widespread conditions...
...questions being asked this year have survived a long shakedown process that began in 1974 when the bureau started collecting suggested queries from governmental departments, local officials, Chambers of Commerce and interest groups. Most recommendations were turned down because, according to the bureau, they did not "justify burdening the American public across the board." The housing industry, for example, wanted to know about the size of cracks in household ceilings; this was rejected because respondents objected strongly to it during tests of sample questionnaires...
...commercial banks across the whole range of banking services. It could in time become as accurate to speak of "brifts" and "thanks" as thrifts and banks. Record high interest rates, a credit squeeze, the mad race for customers and now the new federal banking laws have set off a shakedown of the whole American financial system...
...Earth. The Enterprise and its crew, once it has assembled, proceeds to the alien with no delay, no tests or demonstrations of strength, courage, ingenuity, resourcefulness or extraordinary ability. And once one technological challenge has been overcome, the Enterprise and its crew arrive at their destination having had no shakedown, without demonstrating that the women and men of the 23rd century are capable of handling their 23rd-century problems. Only fans of the television series will be able to use the 79 television episodes as the basis of their knowledge of the crew's ability...