With its back to the wall, Oshkosh management turned to the one customer that had enough cash to save it: the U.S. military.

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Mr Klaus was speaking with his political back to the wall and a loaded gun to his head.

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With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him.

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Schumer has been a friend to Wall Street over the years, and Wall Street has loved him right back with an open faucet of campaign contributions.

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They want to roll back Wall Street reform so that we end up with the same financial system we had that got us into this mess in the first place.

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But it is dismaying that conservatives should feel a natural kinship with a figure whose defining characteristics would seem even to them to be a back up against the wall, a sharply limited number of options, and very little time remaining.

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After pulling it off the wall, he stashed it in a shopping bag and flew with it back to Athens, authorities said.

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There are many fascinating aspects to the tale, which has just taken a new turn with a report in the Wall Street Journal that the automaker will be giving Chinese workers significant raises to get them back to work.

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