By adding certain features as standard apps in its iOS software, Apple has put companies through the wringer.

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They didn't recess, and now Cordray will be put through the wringer on Tuesday during his Senate confirmation hearing.

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Its individual investor page (www.riskgrades.com) lets users put entire portfolios through the risk-wringer.

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Most dramatically, the Irish government in the fall of 2008 backstopped its banks, putting its public finances through a wringer.

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You can squeeze it by hand, but if you put it in a wringer, you're going to get some more out of it.

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On the review front, we put the Canon EOS-1D X and the Sony Reader PRS-T2 through the wringer and offer our detailed analysis.

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This company has gone through painful revolving door of CEOs that has done no favors for shareholders and put the somehow still loyal staff through the wringer.

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Such growth as there is comes from a small group of companies that have been put through the wringer and have emerged from it stronger than before.

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Indeed, Arizona Clean Fuels, an organization that bills itself as committed to building newer and better refineries that burn gasoline more cleanly, has been through the wringer for a decade as it's tried to get a refinery up in the Yuma area.

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In investing, big scandals tend to produce deep scars, but it sometimes pays to let go of prejudices and to abandon negative connotations of a company that went through the wringer in the past but has since turned its act around and guilty parties are sent to jail.

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