Word: shakedowns
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...Shakedown Ahead. On the revenue side, the airlines have clearly been misled by overoptimistic passenger projections. Carriers flying between New York and Los Angeles have added enough new seats this year to accommodate an anticipated 15% growth of traffic, but the number of passengers has increased by only 7%. Last year American Airlines scheduled 103 weekly flights from New York to Los Angeles, operated them at 70% of capacity. This year, after adding 43 flights to the route, American has seen that occupancy figure drop...
...combative dialogue was not hard to explain. With the Oregon primary this week and the California primary June 4, the Democratic contest was nearing a possible shakedown. In the past, McCarthy has genially admitted that he and Kennedy are not far apart on basic issues, but last week he associated the New Yorker with the "disastrous" policies that led to the war. "Those policies were not merely the product of specific misjudgments," he said. "Rather, they grew from a systematic misconception of America and its role in the world. I am not convinced that Senator Kennedy has entirely renounced that...
...real Suez, closed by war, gave Esso Europe its own shakedown cruise. With Europe cut off from much of its Middle East oil, other sources had to be located rapidly. Campbell diverted Jersey tankers at sea and chartered others, kept the region fueled with a pipeline of ships bringing oil from the Western Hemisphere. At one point Esso's Fawley, England, refinery was handling a mid-American grade of oil called Rocky Mountain Sour that had never before been seen in Europe...
...challenger's main thrust has been to accuse Tate's administration of being "more interested in patronage and favoritism than in moving the city ahead," of turning the City of Brotherly Love into "Shakedown, U.S.A." When Specter demands that Tate name his campaign contributors-donors who, says Specter, stand to get official favors from Tate-the mayor demurs,. While Specter makes points with this strategy, Tate's arsenal contains a heavy weapon that Specter's lacks: an emotional issue of major impact...
Every once in a while they'll have shakedown inspections at the bases. They'll go through every inch of the barracks. But the old generation does not really know how much of it there is and they don't know what to look for or where to look. So it's pretty easy to get away with. In fact, it's damn easy. When I was a sergeant in Texas, I had a room to myself and we used to have pot parties in my room in the barracks right in the middle of the army base...