What's more likely is that the companies will muddle along, slashing costs where they can, until GM--which instigated the price war--decides it no longer makes sense.
What's likely is that the American companies will muddle along, slashing costs where they can, until GM--which instigated the price war--decides it no longer makes sense.
The battery business is no winner--a price war in the checkout aisle has made profits elusive--and Gillette's shares are down 53% from their 1998 high.
Indeed, most of the major ones have descended on the Philippines and are now embroiled in an all-out price war.
The sale to an anonymous buyer is a landmark moment for the London art market and establishes a record price for any Post-War work of art sold at auction in Europe.
Basel, Switzerland-based Roche has started a price war between its hepatitis C drug, Pegasys, and Schering-Plough's Peg-Intron.
The UK is still some way behind the US - where 50% of the population have home internet access - but the price war is encouraging more people to log on.
Remember the Christmastime price war on best-selling hardcovers?
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So a price war has ensued on franchise-signup costs.
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When people do buy toys they often shun the large toy retailers and head for discounters, notably Wal-Mart, which now dominates much of American retailing and has just launched a price war in some of the most popular toys, such as this year's must-buy, Hokey Pokey Elmo.
"We are literally in a war with energy companies who are price-gouging us, " Davis said Thursday.
The Syrian presence helped end the war in 1990 and stabilise the country thereafter, with the occupation accepted by war-weary Lebanese as a price worth paying.
According to noted vintage poster dealer Jim Lapides, president of International Poster Gallery in Boston, pre-World War II travel posters are the most highly sought after, with posters dating to the post-war era quickly catching up in price.
Careless share-price falls cost jobs, to paraphrase that World War II poster phrase.
Consumer analysts watching the airline distribution tug-of-war worry that taking away options for price comparison makes shopping for low air fares more difficult.
Japanese firms pile in late as resellers or with their own me-too versions and kill themselves in a price war while U.S. entrepreneurs move on to new technologies.
By entering the DC-Washington market, Southwest is exacerbating an ongoing price war between legacy carriers like United, American, and Northwest and newcomer JetBlue.
Tesco fired the first shots in the latest round of the supermarket price war in October, launching a fresh round of price-cuts.
The store launched the latest salvo in the UK supermarket price war earlier this year, by announcing a range of price-cuts.
In the 1991 Gulf war, the conflict was over swiftly and the oil-price spike short-lived, so the markets soon recovered.
The bat-winged B-2, for instance, saw its production goal slashed from 132 planes to a mere 21 when the Cold War ended, amidst widespread complaints about its billion-dollar price-tag.
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Schwab initiated another sort of price war in 2009 when it became the first major brokerage to offer commission-free ETF trading online.
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"I don't think the price war is going to abate anytime soon, " says Bruce Stephen, vice-president for worldwide PC research at International Data Corp. (IDC).
Intel's admission came a day after AMD warned investors Monday that its first-quarter sales will fall short of its earlier targets, another sign of the brutal price war between the two companies.
The latest proof comes from Dennis McCunney, weighing in on a post examining whether fire-sale prices by the weaker players in the tablet market will result in a tablet price war.
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Against the initial instincts of his foreign affairs spokesman, Sir Menzies Campbell, and Alan Beith, the senior Lib Dem who sits on the Intelligence and Security Committee, Mr Kennedy demanded as the price of his co-operation a widely based inquiry that would examine both the political decision-making and the war's legality.
And former Labour defence secretary Lord Hutton - the man the government appointed to oversee a review of public sector pensions - said linking the military pension to the consumer price index, rather than the retail price index, would mean war widows and the injured would get smaller payments in future.
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