Another problem for Glaxo: a study from a rival contradicts one analysis Glaxo is using to defend Avandia.
However, unlike Mexico, Germany are not a bitter rival, only a competitive and respected one.
Some fear the slowdown in China will produce a housing crash to rival the one from the late 1990s.
' Belmoktar also feuded with a rival commander - Abou Zeid - one of the most violent and radical figures in AQIM.
And Frank Hsieh, the opposition mayor of Kaohsiung, Taiwan's second-largest city, has already jumped the gun and launched a city lottery to rival the state one.
The disputed re-election of Kenya's president, Mwai Kibaki, last month unleashed a wave of unrest that has ballooned into a conflict pitting rival ethnic groups supporting one or another politician against each other.
American and Iraqi officials have followed suit, but sometimes find that if they pay one tribe, a rival blows up the line and then claims to be more deserving of the protection money.
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Larger countries such as Spain or Italy struggling to ease their debt loads might then become vulnerable, potentially triggering wider eurozone upheaval and even a global financial crisis to rival the one of 2008.
In May 2008 he and a cousin engaged in a high-speed gun battle with a rival along South Claiborne Avenue, one of the city's busiest streets, then rammed the man with their silver Mustang as he fled, in terror, on foot.
What started nearly six years ago as an offensive by the government against the drug cartels has now morphed into a messy turf war between rival gangs eager to gobble up the country one city at a time.
In China it has 3, 300 restaurants more than three times as many as its rival and opens a new one each day.
The politicians know that direct election would deliver not a figurehead president but one who could rival the prime minister.
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It's one thing to block a rival's Web address from accessing your site, notes Barry Parr, an analyst with International Data Corp.
GE's dominance might one day persuade a big rival to withdraw.
BA's struggle to establish itself in Paris shows that it is hard for a competitor, even a powerful one, to achieve critical mass in a hub dominated by a rival alliance.
The boss of one of the biggest American firms complains that a copy of one of his proposals ended up on the desk of a Japanese rival.
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The art of their one-upmanship involves outspending a rival, often in small but cutting ways that suggest an effortless superiority.
Link acknowledged that there could be problems enforcing the code if one spammer tried to get a rival shut down by sending junk mail on their behalf.
That master of hype once wooed more people to pay to see an elephant he'd painted white than a rival circus master attracted with a real snowy one.
Right-wing National Front supporters staged a demonstration in one part of the town while members of the Anti-Nazi League staged a rival protest in another part.
Rival Kmart has extended Black Friday from a one-day event to a seven-week shopping stretch.
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But Royal infighting among rival princes will not make the transition a clean one.
It is one of two rival groups fighting a turf war in Medellin that has seen violence in the area rise.
If Messrs Warner and Biden were rolled into one, they would make a formidable rival to Hillary even at the top of her game.
We drive out of the city and over rugged mountain passes to Pune, a university town that Haque says one day will rival Palo Alto in Silicon Valley.
Poor took a lead role in creating a rival standard called Zigbee, which moves data only one-fourth as fast as Bluetooth but can handle hundreds of devices at once.
Europe's 3G is based on one broadband technology, WCDMA. A rival technology is CDMA. Experience in Japan, the first country where 3G has been launched, suggests that CDMA may have the edge.
While they have both just celebrated 800 years of scholarly study, the key attribute Oxford and Cambridge universities share is a fierce pride - and a powerful urge to put one over on their rival.
For one thing, a win for his rival, Ahmed Shafiq, a former air-force commander who was the last prime minister of the fallen president, Hosni Mubarak, would have tipped power entirely into the hands of what many Egyptians regard as the forces of counter-revolution.
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