The commission found that information-sharing among America's overlapping and rivalrous intelligence agencies was poor.

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The Kurds themselves are divided between two rivalrous parties that have fought before and might do so again.

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And it can be rivalrous: the week before they died, someone set fire to the Chinese workers' catch.

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With so many well-armed and rivalrous groups jostling for power, further nasty incidents like Sunday's one involving Mr Abbas seem likely.

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Mirror-gazing, sex-obsessed, rivalrous, mean-spirited children who are driving civility into the gutter?

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First, Mr Naughtie elects to examine British politics through a particular lens: the rivalrous relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, his chancellor of the exchequer and presumed successor.

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Like the cleverest smears, however, this episode will stick to him, because it seems to confirm something already suspected about Mr Brown and his government: that some of its members and its rivalrous leader are monomaniacal about the getting and hoarding of power.

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