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.
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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Shahabpur receives only occasional visits from the station's semi-trained constables, who are principally shake-down merchants.
According to John Fung, director of transplants at the University of Pittsburgh, such a shake-down in centres is long overdue.
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.
It's not just for dudes who need to talk on their cellphones while walking down the street with a protein shake in one hand and a PowerBar in the other.
This demonstrates how hard it is to shake fixed stigmas - which have already been passed down to the younger generation.
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Hewlett-Packard has announced a boardroom shake-up that includes its chairman Raymond Lane stepping down.
It will also be a chance for the parties to shake off some of the challenges that are holding them down, such as the right-wing drift of the GOP -- which could hurt the chances of the Republican candidates in 2016, regardless of how charismatic and talented they are.
Such paternalism may have helped to shake Turkey out of its Ottoman torpor, but it goes down badly in liberal-democratic modern Europe.
Just 15 overs remained before the captains could shake on a draw and, apart from Bell clubbing Mishra down the ground for four and Strauss cutting Harbhajan to the same effect, they were largely uneventful.
The way to shake up Poland's crony capitalism is not by selectively hunting down the cronies, but by making it such an open, liberal and competitive society that the old connections no longer count for much.
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