Like most pork producers, Smithfield has been caught in a tug of war with consumers.
And there's a tug of war going on between the Joint Chiefs and General Petraeus and his staff.
We are left with a tug of war and power politics over FTT.
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It involves exercises such as the farmer's walk, a tug of war against weighted plates, and hanging onto a towel for a given amount of time.
The debate over device subsidies is part of a tug of war between mobile operators, Internet companies and phone makers seeking control and profits in the wireless industry.
For many organizations, IG has been a tug of war between Legal, IT, and the business, with each department having conflicting requirements for how information is managed, stored, and accessed.
The market finds itself in a tug of war between negative headlines from Europe and encouraging data in the U.S., and over the past few weeks optimism has won the day.
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In the deal, the team acquired former Nuggets point guard Chauncey Billups, a friend of Anthony's who many times clashed with the offense, and there became a stylistic tug of war between Anthony's loyalists and D'Antoni's that never fully healed.
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"There was a lot of toing-and-froing, " said Strydom, without commenting directly on rumours that the squad had again been the subject of a tug-of-war between the selectors and Cricket South Africa president Norman Arendse.
Armani is also in a perennial tug of war with the fashion establishment, which tends to exalt the more tormented or intellectual work of designers like the late Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton's Marc Jacobs and much to his irritation Miuccia Prada.
Liverpool have confirmed they have reached an agreement with both player and club for the 24-year-old, who has been the subject of a tug-of-war in recent weeks with big-spending Manchester City and Johnson's former side Chelsea also in the running for his signature.
Two teenagers whose fingers were cut off in a game of tug-of-war at a school in California are awake and alert after surgery, a medical official says.
There is a "definite tug of war" between recognizing the value of a formula for low-income people and the problems of shoehorning complicated, unique marriages into a single approach, said Rose Mary Bailly, the commission's executive director.
After paying a couple of the contested bills, Otari hunkered down into a yearlong tug-of-war with the carrier.
Perhaps it should serve as a healthy cold shower for any modern civilisational warrior who sets out to present the course of history as a simple tug-of-war between Christianity and Islam.
What followed was a tug-of-war about what it means to be a private person with a public identity.
In Colorado in 2007, two students partially severed their hands in a tug-of-war.
Suharto's rule has always been a tug-of-war between technocrats and cronies, between those who craft policy and those who dispense patronage.
All this women-specific discussion often comes across as bizarre, since few see the world, or even the economy, as a tug-of-war between the sexes.
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"There's a tug-of-war going on as to which one is going to be the ultimate benchmark, " said Michael Sabo, senior commodities broker at RJO Futures.
Many eco-nomists call it a tug-of-war between rising corporate profits and investment versus falling consumer incomes and spending - with the winner still in doubt.
Until then expect a tug-of-war between Hobbit-town and the City.
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The torrid growth set off a tug-of-war inside MCI: The sales side pursued resellers with alacrity, but the finance side worried about the resellers' ability to pay their bills.
Topham, an English fireplug who was five feet ten and weighed two hundred pounds, could bend iron pokers with his bare hands, roll pewter dishes into cannoli, and win a tug-of-war with a horse.
The outcome of meeting may have a big political impact inside the FDA. Many industry-watchers are seeing this as a tug-of-war between the career FDA employees who run the drug research division, who have kept Avandia on the market so far, and the the Obama appointees who currently run the agency.
As a woman in a startup, you are likely familiar with the rollercoaster ups and downs of funding, ongoing tug-a-war with the competition and the stress of pushing out the next release.
But no one who is a student of the tug of war between open and closed systems thinks this battle is over.
The deal came with handcuffs preventing Liberty from seizing full control, but those provisions recently expired, leaving Malone and Karmazin in a public tug-of-war for the company.
Spurs eyed Leeds boss George Graham - who had won glory with north London archrivals Arsenal - and engaged in a public tug-of-war with the Yorkshire side for the Scotsman.
Astronomers have long theorized that there are many planets that have drifted away from their home stars, whether it's a too-loose gravitational pull during the planet's formation or a stellar tug-of-war.
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