Sometimes you must get into bed with the devil to achieve one's goals.

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The firms were also pushing rivals to get into bed with one another.

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In Silicon Valley, plenty of people argue that if you get into bed with a company like Microsoft or Intel, you will get squashed.

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Last year Nokia's Stephen Elop flung his company off what he described as a burning platform, putting the Finnish giant's Symbian operating system out to grass to get into bed with Microsoft's Windows Phone.

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He has been able to get into bed with Mr Blair because in most seats where the Lib Dems have good chances they are fighting the Tories, and therefore an alliance with Labour is helpful.

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That's why corporations end up getting into bed with plaintiff lawyers--to get their bankruptcy plans approved, says Richard Nagareda, a mass-torts expert at Vanderbilt University Law School.

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