Both BlackBerry and Nokia are now trying aggressive come-backs in Europe just as Samsung and Apple gird for major flagship launches in spring and early summer.

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While the focus now is on a possible agreement in coming days or weeks, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist told CNN earlier this week that the nation should gird for long-range battle.

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Democrats Gird for Tax-Relief Battle.

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The Middle East is known for shifting sands and we should gird ourselves for that eventuality.

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In other words, instead of one warning label appropriately approved by a federally warranted agency, drugmakers must now gird themselves for warning labels as judged by 50 states and who knows how many other jurisdictions.

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Morgan in dealings with attorneys general in at least two states, is a sign of the legal strategy that is emerging as lenders and mortgage servicers gird themselves themselves for what is likely to be a contentious and complicated inquiry.

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But whoever takes over at the commission will have to gird himself (no she is in sight) for a tricky few years.

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