Word: wrings
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...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...
Another literary source could have been the Warner Bros. film library. Time Warner officials were outraged that Disney had tried to wring commercial advantage out of the big merger, using the FTC and FCC examination of the deal as air cover for an opportunity to enhance Disney's bottom line. They sounded like Claude Rains in Casablanca, who would have been "Shocked! Shocked!" that one communications conglomerate would dare to profit at the expense of another...