The news about Icahn joining the long-Herbalife team originated from a NY Post report, highlighting the rollercoaster ride that has sent Herbalife into a tug-and-pull battle between hedge fund managers.

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I'm glad I've stuck to my one-cup-of-coffee rule: I'm wearing ski bibs, a climbing harness (in case I need to be fished out of a crevasse) and a high-tech avalanche pack that can inflate with one tug, turning me into a human bouncy castle.

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After paying a couple of the contested bills, Otari hunkered down into a yearlong tug-of-war with the carrier.

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Topham, an English fireplug who was five feet ten and weighed two hundred pounds, could bend iron pokers with his bare hands, roll pewter dishes into cannoli, and win a tug-of-war with a horse.

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Each day, they'd open the tubes with the tug of a string, letting the containers tumble into a concrete gully.

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The official report into the incident said that while an emergency salvage tug would not have prevented the initial grounding it would have made it possible to secure the vessel more quickly.

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