"If this was a fair fight and there wasn't this poison pill, this would be an open and shut case as of this morning, " said Alex Potter, an analyst at Collins Stewart.

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Seems like an open and shut case, right?

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An open and shut case?

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But the government says when it comes to black money, it's not an open-and-shut case.

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Joe Co. would have an open-and-shut case against the companies responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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Although thousands of union members turned out at the capitol to protest, it was an open-and-shut case.

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Joe Corp. would have an open-and-shut case against BP, Transocean and Halliburton over the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.

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If the federal funds rate were at, say, 3 percent, we would have, in my view, an open-and-shut case for reducing it.

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So it is not an open-and-shut case that these medications work.

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Should be an open-and-shut case.

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