That set up a winner-take-all game with Army to end the season.

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But if a zero-sum, winner-take-all struggle for leverage is the name of the game, those games seldom conclude as the winners might hope.

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But the hard truth is that the partisans have lined up behind specific fuel options and turned it into a game of winner-take-all.

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