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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the much-needed corporate shakeout is held up by feeble bankruptcy rules.
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Especially with the middle-management shakeout of the nineties, bosses change.
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The shakeout fuels the consolidation, as groups of lawyers from failed firms attach themselves to larger firms.
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The current shakeout may serve to separate the haves from have-nots.
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Then, as always, there was a crash and a shakeout .