The company would look foolish trying to qualify or retreat from the public defense they have so spiritedly mounted while, at the same time, any settlement would likely vitiate the intensive messaging.

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The Social Democrats are still well ahead, but for the first time in two years they are losing ground, thanks to a new liberal-conservative party that calls itself the Civic Platform, or plain Platform, which is bidding spiritedly for the middle ground.

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