Word: dogfight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew it was going to be a fight, but this [was] a dogfight," said Antrobus, Cellucci's press secretary...
...early 7-4lead in the fourth game, and it seemed that theprevious game was merely a momentary blip on theradar screen. But Dartmouth was far from finished.As the substantial and largely bipartisan crowdcame to life for both sides, Dartmouth stormedback to take the fourth game in a dogfight...
...loss was especially devastating because, with powerhouse UMass likely to plug up the top spot in the tournament, second and third place was likely to be a dogfight between several teams, including Harvard...
...about people, this is where you'll go." Yet Lloyd Werner, executive vice president of sales and marketing, admits that cable operators have so far reacted with "skepticism." Says he: "I've been doing this for 15 years, and it's never been so tough. There is a true dogfight for channels...
...easily. The pilots' union badly bloodied United Airlines in a strike in 1985, and pilots hammered the final nail in Eastern Airlines' corporate coffin in a strike in 1989. The majority of American's pilots served in the military, and many seem to relish the notion of a dogfight with their famously pugnacious boss. "A lot of these guys have been in combat," says strike chairman Matthew Field of the APA. "If he wants combat, we'll give him combat...