So this holiday season, when the big chains are waging a fierce battle to offer the lowest priced toys, Storch wants to set the record straight.

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They understand they must join the policy battle and offer serious reforms to a health-care system that is in disrepair.

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He cautioned me that making an offer on a house in this condition could mean a lengthy battle with the bank holding the obligation, to get them to agree to a fair price.

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Kaufman soon accepted Lawler's offer to a match in the Mid-South Coliseum -- to battle the King on his own turf.

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No-one is denying that, if managed properly, biofuels such as ethanol can offer very subsatial benefits, and have a significant role to play in the battle against global warming and climate change.

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Hewlett-Packard and Dell went to battle for the storage virtualization vendor to have competitive advantage in a world where the giants of tech offer to do it all for businesses by moving their data to the cloud.

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More often than not, Davidson says, people are willing to pay the settlement out of court rather than enter a losing battle where the amount owed is likely to be three to five times more than the settlement offer.

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It also represented the latest chapter in an increasingly fierce status battle at Yamaha, with Lorenzo insisting he is worth more than the team's current offer of a two-year contract - reported to be only a quarter of the salary being paid to Rossi.

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