Is Grassley's ploy a ham-fisted attempt to shake down rich Wall Streeters for campaign contributions?
They vowed to root out officials who shake down villagers for illegal fees and taxes.
It was completed in 1984 and in 1985 staged the Asian Games as a shake down for the 1988 summer Olympics.
China faces immense economic challenges, from local apparatchiks who shake down or inhibit local entrepreneurs to state-owned companies that are hemorrhaging red ink.
Cybersquatters will try to grab these sites first and sell ads on them or try to shake down trademark holders for the site rights.
Local politicians hate this idea because it would prevent them from being able to shake down companies trying to win permission to offer expanded services.
It even has security-cleared staff, including some from the British agency, to shake down the gear and ensure it can't be exploited by spooks or crooks.
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"The defence minister has ordered a shake down inspection for all the private airlines, " Pervez George, head of Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority, told the AFP news agency.
So how will this shake down going forward?
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Our ten-year dawdle over North Korea's nuclear adventurism hammers home to Tehran's corrupt, totalitarian-minded thugs this inescapable conclusion: Nukes mean respect, mean security--and they grant blackmail power to shake down billions in booty from the U.S. and other Western moneybags.
As shrewd observers of the international scene -- assisted by the massive Russian signals-intelligence facility at Lourdes, Cuba -- Fidel and his associates have had little difficulty in judging the time propitious to either complete their existing fatally-flawed VVER-440 reactors or shake down the U.S. and international community for some kind of substantial compensatory alternative.
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Shahabpur receives only occasional visits from the station's semi-trained constables, who are principally shake-down merchants.
This shared determination to shake Britain down may yet forge a real partnership in Northern Ireland.
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According to John Fung, director of transplants at the University of Pittsburgh, such a shake-down in centres is long overdue.
But Iran's hardheaded clerical hoodlums won't take that bait, figuring they'll shake us down for even more once they have the actual thing.
It also means huge endowments and a shake-down of rich donors.
You see, when you pick up the east side of the country and shake things down to California, what shakes loose are the kind of people who aren't very tethered to begin with.
Then, the new shares, like water pressing down on a fault line, will cause the earth to shake, driving down the market in a man-made disaster.
And God bless America. (Applause.) I'm going to come down and shake some hands.
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But the sitcom disaster did not seem to slow Lagasse down or shake his spirit.
You know, the type who every so often comes down to shake hands with investors and customers.
This suggests that the recession may shake out and slim down cities, making them eventually better places to live.
The Jacksons - featuring Tito, Marlon, Jackie, Jermaine, Michael and Randy - found fame in the 1970s with hits such as I Want You Back, ABC and Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground).
They shake their heads up and down as an act of validation, and then they smile and laugh.
Pepsi Bottling Group was fairly flat in the third quarter despite its efforts to shake things up in the down economy.
An Early Day Motion calling for the reinstatement of a librarian sacked after the filming of a Harlem Shake video has been put down in Parliament.
Maybe if me jump up and down, me can shake fruit out of this tree, the fuzzy blue monster says to his television viewers.
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