Word: goliaths
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...knew that one of those scores had to be wrong, but that didn't matter. B.C. was in the game. David was beating Goliath...
...taking sides in even the pettiest disputes among rival clans. Sergeant Kevin Anderson, a military-police officer, recalls sitting by in frustration as clan-vs.-clan arguments turned into free-for- alls. "Pretty soon," he says, "rocks would be flying back and forth from these David-and-Goliath slings they used. Then someone would go get a small- caliber weapon. Then someone from the other side would get a bigger weapon, and all hell broke loose...
Since their debut in 1940, cat-and-mouse combatants Tom and Jerry seemed as classic a pair of adversaries as David and Goliath -- only more violent. Yet in their first feature film, which is being released this week, the two put aside their traditional enmity and actually become partners. This is just one more example of a dismaying recent phenomenon: beautiful antagonisms turning into friendships...
...deal whose major negotiations took only two weeks, MCI Communications Corp., the entrepreneurial David to AT&T's Goliath in America's long-distance wars, sold 20% of its stock to the huge British Telecommunications PLC for roughly $4.3 billion and instantly acquired access to AT&T-like capital and global reach...
...were to back down because the employer was a Goliath of the world and I'm only a David of the legal community, I don't think I'd be doing a proper service to potential clients," Spicer said in an interview last month. "Harvard is an institution. It's the people at Harvard who make mistakes...