| 21. | The owners have the cities over a barrel.
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| 22. | The big labor unions are over a barrel and becoming powerless under the administration's anti-labor onslaught.
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| 23. | They feel they have us over a barrel.
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| 24. | They will replace the ladder Jen�k usually uses with a plank over a barrel of water.
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| 25. | "He really had Exxon over a barrel, " laughed local trademark lawyer Thomas M . Scofield.
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| 26. | You are kind of stuck over a barrel.
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| 27. | But other kinds of slotting fees stifle competition, hurt consumers and hold smaller manufacturers over a barrel.
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| 28. | Who has whom over a barrel now?
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| 29. | They have consumers over a barrel.
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| 30. | They're really over a barrel ."
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