Word: feuded
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...doing so, McConnell was showing the same unsentimental single-mindedness that he has always displayed. A feud between Senators from the same state and same party is rare, but McConnell plays to win. "The Republican leadership was responsible for drying up his funds. Jim is right about that," Ford, a master of the Senate in his day, told TIME. "But McConnell was focusing on winning or losing. Republicans have lost the last two elections, so McConnell has been losing his taw, as we would say in western Kentucky, and he doesn't want to lose anymore...
...over a host of disagreements that go back to the earliest days of Iran's revolution; their relationship is shot through with differences over Palestine, and exacerbated by the fact that one is mainly Shi'a and the other mainly Sunni. And then there is Tehran's ongoing feud with...
Perhaps more important, the Globovisión feud points to how the U.S. and Venezuela can prod each other to better hemispheric images during the Honduran crisis. The "do something" remark was vintage Chávez, but it also reflected a growing concern in the hemisphere and beyond that Obama isn't exerting enough pressure on Micheletti, and therefore may not be as committed as he has declared to reversing Washington's long history of aiding military coups against leaders who aren't necessarily U.S allies. Likewise, Chávez needs to realize that his calls for Micheletti's regime...
...players in the feud are Ferdinand Piech and Wolfgang Porsche, both of them grandsons of the visionary automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche, who invented both Porsche and VW back in the 1930s. Wolfgang Porsche is chairman of Porsche, while his cousin Piech is chairman...
...sleeve, the biggest of which would be to sell some of the VW shares Porsche has amassed to pay down the debt. But people who know the companies well say that something much bigger is at stake here than just paying off debt. "It's just like any family feud, where the arguments drag on and on for no logical reason, and just when you think that you have it sorted out, it flares up again," says Peter Schmidt, who runs a British-based consultancy called Automotive Industry Data. Already, he worries, the fighting "is detrimental to both companies...