Word: showdown
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...Crimson also faces a tough road game at Fairfield on Wednesday. With Dartmouth looming next Sunday, a three-hour bus ride and midterms to face, Harvard will have to focus extra hard in order to defeat Fairfield and carry its current momentum into the showdown with Dartmouth...
Indeed, this battle could be influenced as much by the personal styles of the ceos as by the strength of their bids. Vallance, although he flat-out bungled his MCI bid, could use his 20% stake to provide the swing vote in a showdown. He seems more disposed to side with Lee than with Ebbers, who shattered BT's dream of acquiring all of MCI. Lee and Roberts, both engineers, have a common bond, while the defiantly nontechnical Ebbers is a wildcatter who built WorldCom into the fourth largest U.S. long-distance company through a relentless series of deals. "Bernie...
North Carolina (7-0), which moved within one win of heading undefeated into a Nov. 8 showdown with No. 3 Florida State, held its 14th straight opponent under 300 yards...
...Although the Maritime Agency has acted within its powers, from the administration's point of view it has the look of an unplanned event," says TIME correspondent Adam Zagorin. "I don't think the White House intended to have a major showdown with Japan over this...
...they like a good fight--it's the fights they like to pick. Time and again, most notably during the government shutdown in 1995, the Clinton Administration has beat up on G.O.P. lawmakers and in the end subjected them to painful public embarrassment. So when House Republicans forced a showdown last week with the President over his treasured plan for national math and reading tests for students--despite a White House threat to veto an entire spending bill if the testing money was not included--it seemed on the face of it that these guys were just gluttons for punishment...