Asbestos defendants have complained for years that they are the victims of a multibillion-dollar shakedown.
The team aims to fire up the cars on 25 January before a shakedown at Silverstone.
When tech companies die, their patent caches live on, often falling into the hands of shakedown artists.
Maldonado also may have been caught up in a shakedown by Mexican police who were seeking a bribe.
After the initial shakedown period, and until recently, the new Euro seemed to draw strength from an underperforming European economy.
FORBES: Strengthening Of The Yen Shows How We Misunderstand Exchange Rates
An Arizona sheriff who has spent more than 40 years along the Mexican border said Maldonado's case probably was a shakedown.
Facebook is getting a shakedown from the city of Menlo Park, California, the Silicon Valley town the company now calls home.
FORBES: Facebook Stares Down The Menlo Park Council Shakedown
Prop. 37 would not only create a large new bureaucracy but also encourages bounty-hunter, or shakedown, litigation to enforce the rules.
FORBES: Labeling Of Genetically Engineered Foods Is A Losing Proposition
These are transparent efforts to shakedown companies for settlements, with no intention of engaging in the expensive process of litigation culminating in a trial.
FORBES: Not So Scary, After All: In Defense Of Patent Trolls
While I have certainly made mistakes, this threat feels like a shakedown, and I will defend myself to the full extent of the law.
FORBES: Square COO Rabois Resigns Amid Sexual Harassment Charge
During a routine shakedown six months after his detainment, guards confiscated an accordion file in his cell containing more than a hundred pages of drawings and notes.
That brought Stade to within seven points at 28-21, before youngster Flanagan showed his composure with the late drop-goal that could prove crucial in the final group shakedown.
For example, the group tries to contain "Shakedown Street, " a term borrowed from a Grateful Dead song for the inevitable black market that pops up in parking areas.
WSJ: Taming the Fans of O.A.R., Phish, the Grateful Dead and Dave Matthews Band
That's the awkward thing about this great shakedown in Cannes.
Like most settlements nobody appears to be overjoyed with the terms: Banks view it as a shakedown by politically ambitious attorneys general across the country, and other critics think it too light.
In other words, there was no shakedown.
FORBES: The San Francisco Giants Are The Capitalist Choice In The World Series
While many of them are filed in Delaware, an increasing number are being filed in other states where judges may be less experienced at telling the difference between a meritorious case and a simple shakedown for fees.
FORBES: Plaintiff Lawyers Seek Their Cut On Virtually All Big Mergers, Study Shows
About three months into his term, during a shakedown following the murder of an inmate, prison officials turned up a makeshift knife in his cell. (He denies that it was his.) They gave him a year in isolation.
WHITEHOUSE: Vice President Biden on Congressman Barton��s Apology to BP
Morse shepherds buyers through the process, monitors each boat's progress almost daily, and then--this is something you probably won't find at Chris-Craft--delivers the boat personally. (He's driven them as far as the Chesapeake Bay.) Your first ride in your new skiff is a shakedown cruise with the personable Morse himself, who ends up remaining in touch with many owners for years afterward.
应用推荐