Word: skirmishes
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...hamburger chains, has sprung to life with speedy- delivery contests, price wars and new-product campaigns. "It's an all-out conflagration," says Charles Henderson, vice president of marketing for Godfather's Pizza, the fifth largest U.S. chain (586 outlets). "This will make burger wars look like a neighborhood skirmish." Rather than fight it out, Pillsbury, the parent firm of Godfather's, has decided to sell the chain. Herman Cain, president of Godfather's, is leading a management takeover of the restaurants...
...Israeli soldiers and a Palestinian guerrilla died in a foggy, predawn skirmish on the Lebanon border...
...that two- year-olds utter before they say anything else." Social workers in Maputo are trying to relieve the nightmares of abducted youths. Fernando Maposse, 14, who was captured and forced to join the rebels, escaped after accidentally killing two members of his own band in a cross-fire skirmish between the guerrillas and government troops. Maposse said the rebels crept like animals through the bush and consulted a witch doctor before deciding when to attack. Another youth was tortured and abandoned when he refused to kill members of his own family. The rebels chopped...
...Another skirmish erupted last week in the battle between lawyers and doctors over the skyrocketing cost of malpractice insurance. The spur was a suggestion made by the American Medical Association and other doctors' groups that medical malpractice cases be taken away from the courts. Instead, they would be decided by state boards that would have responsibility for disciplining doctors as well. The plan would also impose strict guidelines on damage awards, including a cap on noneconomic damages such as those for "pain and suffering...
...then a crazed and menacing religious cultist, and nothing happens again. Even when the narrator's brain- dazed brother, an outlaw biker, kills a man in a brawl -- something happens here, certainly -- the fact comes out only as an aside, as part of a moody, troubling description of his skirmish with a bored psychiatrist at a VA hospital. The author's sound instinct is to play against the dramatic. There is no resolution of the brother's predicament. You are missing the point if you try to watch one chunk of carrot in the roil of this Sleazy Street stew...