"It's Christmas time and he's knee-deep in battle, and she's home with two young kids, " he said.

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In 1966 he left the Raiders to run the AFL, then deep in its antitrust battle against the older, more established NFL. Davis aggressively raided the NFL talent pool, signing top players to exorbitant contracts.

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Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke will direct The Machine, a new play about chess player Garry Kasparov's battle with the supercomputer Deep Blue, written by Matt Charman.

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With Merrill, like the rest of Wall Street, thinking about deep cuts in costs, a leadership battle would only have made these decisions harder.

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"The Return of the King" turns out to be even more ambitious than its remarkable predecessor, "The Two Towers, " though it's obviously not as compact (another relative thing), what with dramatic convolutions within its several plot lines and a stupendous martial passage that manages to dwarf the battle of Helm's Deep.

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Netscape brings with it battle-hardened experience and a deep understanding of the Internet.

ECONOMIST: War of the worlds

Pacific Rim is a modern take on the Toho monster movie, with plucky humans controlling giant robots in a battle agains gigantic horrors from the deep.

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Just try pointing out that a relationship with a creature that cannot challenge you, that does not make you slog daily through the necessary compromise, debate, and occasional pitched battle, might be something less than deep and nuanced, and see where it gets you.

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The most famous head to head battle was in 1997 when a computer called Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov.

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