The alternative course, and the one he put forward this week, is to slog it out.

ECONOMIST: Bank of America

While the rival commissions slog it out over the coming months, power in Los Angeles will remain as shadowy and unaccountable as ever.

ECONOMIST: Los Angeles

From 2002 the company began the laborious task of trying to cut capacity rather than continue to slog it out on the dealer forecourts with ever bigger discounts to lure buyers.

ECONOMIST: Ford

It's going to be a tough hard slog for us to dig ourselves out of the hole that we're in.

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