Word: dogfighting
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With both teams in Montgomery, Ala., for the Blue-Gray Classic, animosities that had been festering since last year’s meeting in California turned Saturday’s matchup into a dogfight. And due to inclement weather, the match was suspended in its final stages and will be completed next week when Harvard travels to California...
...also plans to join the supermarket battle in California. It will build 40 Supercenters --discount variety stores combined with supermarkets--and aims to use experience gained in Mexico to aggressively target U.S. Latinos. "The chains are coming back and moving in," says Soto. "It's going to be a dogfight...
...seeking that blessing will set off a fierce dogfight. France, which long demanded a second resolution, now says it might veto any attempt to pass one so soon. Germany, while it has no veto, takes over the chairmanship of the Council in February, and the government of Gerhard Schroder is committed to standing against war. His coalition partners in the Green Party can cause serious trouble for Schroder's thin majority if he bows to U.S. pressure. "We committed ourselves to say no," says Christian Strobele, a stalwart Green pacifist who nearly brought down the government when Schroder sent troops...
EUROBLUES The Real Dogfight Pity Europe's airlines. With passenger traffic already down 9% from 2000, they're now caught in a nasty squabble over "open skies" agreements that would widen competition on lucrative transatlantic routes. E.U. courts banned the individually negotiated deals between 11 member states and the U.S., saying they should be arranged en bloc. When the U.S. appeared to undercut that decision by offering to sweeten the deals, François Lamoureux, the Commission's director-general for transport, threatened last week to drag into court any state that accepts. But E.U. efforts to draw...
...Going in, we really thought it was going to be a dogfight,” Shevchik said...