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On the recordJuly 25, 2013
If a private company is on life support and you say to them we are going to play hardball so that you go out of business or you take this deal and shut your lip, that is what they are going to do.
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Michael Grimm
New York

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Grimm discusses the pressure on the terminal to accept unfavorable terms.

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