No deliberations over a Hurd or an Apotheker can mean much when the board is content to let a company like H-P lurch from pillar to post in hopes of quick revenue injections to stave off inevitable market share erosions.

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Mr Brazil said there was not the land available there used to be, and that it had been stressful being "moved from pillar to post every weekend".

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Coroner Miss Casey said she was concerned that a military wife had found herself "being passed from pillar to post".

BBC: Chetwynd Barracks, Chilwell

He has been battered from pillar to post in his 18 months, some of it his own making, some of it cast down upon him.

BBC: Chick Young's view

My marriage was destroyed, my older children were passed from pillar to post and eventually put into foster care because I spent months on end at a time in hospital with the sick child.

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Not only are they being pushed from pillar to post in Russia by a resurgent Vladimir Putin, keen to divide and (ultimately) rule upstream arrangements, the Europe Commission has launched a formal investigation into the Russian gas group for alleged market manipulation following raids on Gazprom offices last year.

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