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. As companies found themselves increasingly squeezed between the demands of workers and stockholders, however, they started pressuring their insurers, who passed that pressure on to hospitals, doctors, and other providers.
In principle, publishers could come to B & N's rescue by pressuring Amazon to raise its prices.
The nomination gets lots of space elsewhere, but only the LAT infuses the vote with racial overtones from the git-go, saying in the first sentence that the vote "killed the candidacy of the first black ever nominated to be Air Force secretary," even though the issues that brought him down were discrepancies in his statements about his career as a pilot and his apparent practice of pressuring subordinates to buy Amway products from him.
One main reason for the softening, says the paper, is that Clinton doesn't want to appear to be pressuring Reno.
First, a Whitewater refresher: In 1993, Hale, the head of an investment firm, accused Bill Clinton of pressuring him to make a fraudulent $300,000 loan to Clinton's business partner, Susan McDougal, some of which flowed into the Whitewater project.