As recently as October, several exhibitors said its costs remained exorbitant, although featherbedding and mob influence appeared to have been rooted out.
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If railroad workers only recently began to feel like the endangered crew of Apollo 13, their ranks had long been notorious for featherbedding.
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More recent political analyses of featherbedding have concluded that featherbedding is not necessarily economically optimal, but is better than other forms of bargaining.
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More recent political analyses of featherbedding have concluded that featherbedding is not necessarily economically optimal, but is better than other forms of bargaining.
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This isn't all featherbedding; students now demand more counseling _ career and psychological _ and other support services than did previous generations.
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In complex organizations, or in those whose inputs and outputs are difficult to quantify, it becomes increasingly difficult to determine what constitutes featherbedding.
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But while Broadway puts its own name in lights, it is playing out a dark financial drama featuring soaring costs and a struggle with featherbedding unions.
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The reform plan also includes new work rules designed to drastically reduce featherbedding at shows and cut exhibitors'costs over all by up to 40 percent.
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In recent months a string of high-level scandals affecting everything from featherbedding by bank regulators to cover-ups of police misdoings hurt his popularity.
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A pivotal change took place in April when he assumed personal management of negotiations between the railroad brotherhood and the railroad industry over the issue of featherbedding.
