The billion-dollar minivan joint venture, for which Daimler-Benz fought tooth and nail with its rivals, Ford and Chrysler, remains on the table.

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While the board fought me tooth and nail, the market agreed with me by pushing the share price to an all-time high.

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Russia, recall, is now a full-fledged member of the World Trade Organization, proof that it is broadly comfortable with the liberal international economic order, an order which the Soviet Union fought tooth and nail until it collapsed.

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