Hollywood writers want compensation for work on new media platforms like the Web--the central fight in three-plus months of acrimonious negotiations with the studios and networks.
After two days of acrimonious debate, 307 of the MPs supporting the government voted for the committee's plans, while all those from the DP refused to vote.
His feeling, shared by many: After three-plus months of acrimonious negotiations and another three weeks on strike, the Writers Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers may be closing in on a deal.
This dynamic eventually became the source of an acrimonious dispute between the two men.
Details have also emerged of an acrimonious four-year dispute involving another senior radiologist and Great Ormond Street.
Barcelona and Chelsea met for the first time in 2000, but have since faced each other a dozen times in a series of increasingly acrimonious battles, highlighted by their notorious showdown at Stamford Bridge in 2009, when Barcelona advanced on Andres Iniesta's stoppage time equalizer, which came after Chelsea had been denied three apparent penalty kicks.
They have to publish quarterly reports, hold shareholder meetings (which have grown acrimonious of late), deal with analysts and generally conduct themselves in an open manner.
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Instead of preparing for an acrimonious negotiation with the Major League Baseball Players Association, Selig can instead seek counsel on the value of 10 ball clubs qualifying for the playoffs instead of eight or the feasibility of an international draft with a slotting system.
Mr Pischetsrieder was fired 13 months ago after a long and acrimonious meeting of the supervisory board.
And by the acrimonious standards of past gatherings, notably last month's bust-up with Britain, this event was uneventful, even amicable.
And then, after last season, came the slow-motion betrayal to end all betrayals: The acrimonious departure of Dwight Howard to the Lakers.
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Type the right words into Google and up comes a trove of files documenting an acrimonious divorce between two business executives in San Diego.
Seen here in his mid-thirties, just four years removed from the acrimonious breakup of the most successful double act in the history of show business, Lewis is comedically fearless, so much a force of nature that he literally has Paar climbing the walls.
After the popular rejection of the proposed EU constitution in France and the Netherlands, the acrimonious break-up of budget talks in June, and multiple setbacks to economic reform (symbolised by the German election result), most European leaders were anxious for any budget settlement.
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The outcome of this exhausting and often acrimonious marathon was in doubt until literally the very last hour.
The disputes and drama over the founding of Facebook have led to acrimonious lawsuits, rich settlements and even a major movie, but on Friday for the first time they also caused an arrest.
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By the genteel standards of the House of Lords, it was a particularly acrimonious debate, with coalition tensions laid bare.
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The year-long programme witnessed incredible highs and lows, with acrimonious departures in the case of some, and others finding love on the island.
Kurdish leaders say they want to remain part of Iraq for now, but increasingly acrimonious disputes with Baghdad over oil and territory might just push them toward separation.
South Africa's ruling African National Congress is meeting its coalition partners to re-define their common political stance after increasingly public and acrimonious bickering on a number of issues.
But this interpretation was immediately challenged from European delegations, one of whom said there had been an acrimonious stand-off between the US and Germany which could not be resolved at the G20 meeting.
Arsenal have suffered 10 days of soul-searching and criticism after allowing Spurs to secure an unlikely draw and losing in acrimonious circumstances at Stoke City but they responded with an almost open show of defiance on and off the pitch.
Some even accuse Liesel of vicariously reliving her mother Irene's acrimonious divorce from her father, Robert.
But we fear that in a publishing climate as precarious as this one, acrimonious staff relations and sustained losses of editorial experience can imperil any magazine.
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The immediate cause of the sharp fall in bond prices seems to have been rooted in the byzantine world of Italian politics, and in particular, an acrimonious spat between Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister, and Giulio Tremonti, the finance minister, over provisions in an emergency budget.
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Its political manifestations are peaceful demonstrations broken up by violent thugs, the illegal occupation of more than 700 white-owned farms and an acrimonious dispute with Britain.
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Potentially acrimonious family discussions sometimes are diffused by the presence of a paid professional.
China relies on Australia for imports of iron ore, the price negotiations for which are increasingly acrimonious.
Ms Relf's death led to an acrimonious written exchange between Mr Smith and the head of Ofsted, Chris Woodhead.
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