Word: dogfighting
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...summer in Hong Kong, and that means steam-bath humidity, threatening typhoons?and labor problems at Cathay Pacific, the territory's only major airline. This year the labor row has turned into a dogfight between the company and its 1,600 pilots, and neither side has yet scored a kill. Travelers around Asia have already been inconvenienced by the labor dispute, and both sides?but mainly management?have been increasing the acrimony as steadily as the Hong Kong temperature has been rising...
...momentum continued to shift to Brown when a dogfight at No. 4 singles between Barker and Drake ended with a 7-5, 6-3 win for Brown. Both players had run each other ragged and stayed focused in the swirling winds...
...just a dogfight," Turner said. "It was 11:30 at night, it was getting chilly. We expected...
...Brown and Harvard have the toughest roads till the end of the season," Stone said. "We understand that every game is going to be a dogfight, and if we lose our edge, we are going to be vulnerable...
Once Bush found himself caught in the kind of policy dogfight Gore lives for--the type of exchange Bush dearly wants to avoid--he had no choice but to shoot back. And so Bush began exchanging fusillades with Gore, each claiming his plan would do more for middle-class people than the other guy's would, and each charging that the other would squander the nation's projected $4.6 trillion budget surplus (see chart). Gore asserted that his tax plan, which could cost up to $620 billion over 10 years, was more prudent and fair than Bush's, which would...