The long and rancorous negotiations left Cablevision customers without most Yankees games last year.
's decade-old Kyoto Protocol on reducing carbon emissions, and it will be ugly and rancorous.
But that will be elusive, to judge by the rancorous tone of this week's peace talks.
The biggest was its own flotation in 1999, after years of often rancorous debate among the partners.
For the most part, they have avoided the rancorous disagreement that now consumes the debate over fiscal policy.
And these are not the best of times, with a double-dipping economy, misbehaving banks and a rancorous coalition government.
There are several other rancorous issues, most of them centred on developing countries.
Mr Harper is abrasive and presides over a rancorous parliament, but his government is stable and the economy chugs happily along.
In 1982, the Western alliance was racked by a rancorous dispute between the United States and several of its European allies.
And the American people - folks like you, and me - are not nearly as divided as our rancorous politics might suggest.
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His quarrels with liberals and liberalism were sometimes rancorous, but they did not turn on any fundamental disagreement about the ultimate destination.
But Republicans are strongly opposed to increased government spending, amid a rancorous political divide over how to tame the US budget deficit.
One of those alternatives was offered by Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who ended up voting for the Republican measure but bemoaned the rancorous debate.
This race between two former governors was close, expensive and rancorous.
This agreement, which stipulates that countries which provide virus samples should also receive the benefits of research, was preceded by four years of rancorous debate.
These are striking figures, but then Singapore has been one of the bigger spenders in the region since its rancorous split from Malaysia in 1965.
He said he hopes a system based on how long people have been in the country will help his bill cut through the sometimes rancorous debate.
After the drama of the vote in the Canadian parliament, and a week of rancorous debate, it was time for the formality of launching an election campaign.
After months of rancorous debate over the size, growth and cost of government, persistently high unemployment rates have finally focused Washington on the urgent need to address the labor crisis.
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Down the hall from the rancorous WMS showroom, in a more peaceful maze of cubicles, are mathematicians, writers, artists and engineers working on 90 new games a year, many of them multiplayer.
But places like Southwark have little time to rest on their laurels: they are girding themselves for yet another of the Church of England's rancorous internal battles, this time over money, not sex.
Well, (and this is a forlorn hope) it would be helpful to report on the ongoing debate over science and policy without treating climate change like a rancorous "he said, she said" political debate.
The resurgence in national prosperity, helped by booming global demand for agricultural commodities, has occurred despite the fact that rancorous disputes over the default have kept the country shut out of international capital markets.
Some Democrats and political commentators have encouraged Obama to lay out his own specific plan now, with Congress returning to Washington after an August recess that was full of rancorous town meetings on health care reform.
Several leading Democrats and political commentators have encouraged Obama to lay out his own specific plan now, with Congress returning to Washington after an August recess that was full of rancorous town meetings on health-care reform.
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Her four kids are growing up, no longer babies. (They range in age from 3 to 8.) And after her recent, rancorous divorce from the singer Seal, Klum has moved on to a relationship with her former bodyguard.
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But the fact that these flaws in the strategy could also be identified in the old stance undermined Mr Neil's campaign which, as it became steadily more rancorous, eventually looked more like a personal attack on Mr Salmond than a battle of principle.
Wales's language disputes are certainly nothing to those of Belgium, where personal relations between the Flemish and Walloon communities can be rancorous, or of Quebec, where English-speakers have left in droves. (In fact, the English continue to come to Wales in substantial numbers, something many language activists deplore.) Even those who do not speak the language say they are proud of it.
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