There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference.

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Forty years later, when Ronald Reagan approached the cold war as a battle to be not only fought but also won, he was following a Churchillian strategy.

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"It's going to be a closely fought battle to see who wins, it is all to play for, " said Mr Bailey.

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And, with history as our teacher, I am pretty certain that the classroom is where the battle for change and equality will continue to be fought and won.

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Chevron managed to get this case removed to Ecuador on foreign non conveniens grounds, ending what might have appeared to be a slam-dunk settlement, and since then has fought a scorched-earth battle to prevent any judgment there from being enforced outside Ecuador.

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And, as in all the other areas of change, the battle to transform those majority views into law will be hard-fought.

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What we do know for sure is that these polls indicate that there is a lot more story to be told and that the economy is where the battle will be fought.

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The multi-core war may have begun, but the battle will be fought with software, although that's not to say that the hardware side has already been won: apparently the test chip is much larger than equivalent chips -- 275 mm squared, versus a typical Core 2 Duo's 143 mm squared -- and Intel currently has no way to hook up memory to the chip.

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