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  • As part of the post-2008 shake-out, much more research money is now flowing into so-called second-generation biofuels that, unlike ethanol, aren't made from food crops.

    Biofuels Industry Battles Past Bumps in the Road Guy Chazan 2011

  • A huge shake-out from the public sector will add to the government's preferred International Labour Organisation measure of unemployment, pushing the total to almost 3m.

    'True' UK unemployment is 6.3m, says TUC 2012

  • The new factory built with Department of Energy funds foisted fixed costs on a company already struggling through an industry shake-out, they say.

    Loan Was Solyndra's Undoing Yuliya Chernova 2011

  • I predict in the next six months a very big shake-out is in the offing and rates will drop precipitously where perhaps even Metro will have to rethink a new strategy to put pressure on the big boys!

    No Minuet Count, Unlimited Calls to Mexico Cheap! 2009

  • Still, the shake-out in Japanese retail positions involving a variety of currencies after the March earthquake is widely seen as the trigger for the huge slide in the dollar against the yen, which in turn prompted a coordinated yen-denting intervention by the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations.

    The Forex Power of Mrs. Watanabe Katie Martin 2011

  • But the European shake-out is far from the only driver of loan growth.

    Pickup in Lending Lifts Big Banks Suzanne Kapner 2012

  • There would be a big shake-out in the home-delivery pizza industry.

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  • There would be a big shake-out in the home-delivery pizza industry.

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  • There would be a big shake-out in the home-delivery pizza industry.

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  • There would be a big shake-out in the home-delivery pizza industry.

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