Word: wringingly
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...what their representatives did, they can fire them. (Heck, they've even got term limits down there.) The politicians, maligned as they are, are just the people the founding fathers had in mind to regulate American elections. Who better than elected officials? At least we don't have to wring our hands about how they've become politicized...
...Mart, Sears, Roebuck & Co., and the Limited among them--are suing Visa and MasterCard, saying they too were overcharged. The merchants will argue before a federal judge in Brooklyn that they are forced to accept and pay an artificially high fee on debit-card sales. They hope to wring $8.1 billion from the defendants in this class action--a number that would triple, if they win, under federal antitrust...
...negotiation, and Gore has shown his cards already - he can't turn down anything Bush says now, after goading him so relentlessly. The debate schedule, when it's hammered out and agreed uopn, will get at least a day's headlines, and if Bush can hold out, and wring some concessions out of the over-eager Gore, he'll get his due for that in the papers...
...Navy as an incoming cable sounding the alarm over a DISSUB--a disabled U.S. submarine--stranded somewhere on the ocean floor. That's why, following the loss of the U.S.S. Thresher in 1963 with 129 men aboard, the Navy launched its SUBSAFE program. It's designed to wring as much danger as possible out of the inherently risky business of prowling the world's oceans. The program isn't perfect. In 1968, the U.S.S. Scorpion went down, killing all 99 aboard. But those 228 Americans lost are fewer than half the number of Russians killed--excluding those who perished...
Aetna may yet wring efficiencies from its acquisitions of the past few years, such as U.S. Healthcare and the money-losing Prudential operation, for which it overpaid. That's if Donaldson can find a management team with the talent and guts to run the troubled health-care division...