(1) Citi's actions weren't illegal, but broke an unwritten understanding not to whipsaw markets or take advantage of the thin summer trading.(2) However, suppliers say they are not comfortable with the digital exchanges, believing them to be overrated, and nothing more than a more efficient way for OEMs to whipsaw them for even greater price concessions.(3) It is inevitable, however, that the company will use the threat of plant closings to whipsaw workers in different factories to accept further concessions in wages and working conditions.(4) They probably won't actually have to whipsaw timbers to make their own boats, but lots of other touches will be as authentic as can be arranged.(5) Use the Internet to whipsaw suppliers into shape.(6) But Tuesday's contrasting administration rhetoric about the war on terrorism underscores a problem that has whipsawed ordinary citizens for months.(7) Consumers are also getting whipsawed by the stock market, which has failed to rally despite Fed rate cuts.(8) If, however, more companies opt for no guidance, the Street may inadvertently become more rational and therefore stop whipsawing stock prices for miniscule variances.(9) He sees an increasing number of Saudis who are whipsawed between a new materialism and traditional values.(10) The whipsawing emotions are something they tell you to expect, but it just doesn't prepare you for the actual experience.(11) But in the past few months the dollar has been confounding forecasters - and whipsawing short-sellers - by rebounding sharply.(12) The first coal shipped from the valley was loaded into boats made of logs and whipsawed lumber and floated down the river.(13) So my theory is that pretty much all of their songs are the rock equivalent of ‘The Ice Storm’: a look at the despair and chaos that whipsaws people who try to live as moral beings in an amoral society.(14) Many skis were just a whipsawed piece of lumber four to six inches in width with an upturned tip, but they worked well enough to transport the skier to where he wanted to go.(15) All the mental health care professionals we know have been whipsawed between their ideals for practice - based both on knowledge of patients and on their own self-image - and the narrow demands of managed care.(16) ‘AMR has been a master in years past at whipsawing , basically taking different employee groups from different companies and working them against each other for the cheapest price,’ added Higgins.
