When it comes to the global information technology (IT) business, there is a massive war brewing.
Some economists and central bankers think that central banks no longer need such massive war chests.
That is sure to draw the attention of investors who have been wishing Apple would share the wealth, including David Einhorn, who has been calling for the company to leverage its massive war chest to return more capital to shareholders.
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That won't stop many analysts from speculating that the real purpose of the Medco divestment is to create a massive war chest that Merck will use to buy new drugs--or perhaps to merge with another drug firm like Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people), with which it co-promotes several drugs, or Eli Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people).
The result was a massive price war that filled the planes but left profit statements red.
The massive World War II defense build-up crowded out domestic spending.
Police chiefs are asking our help to get weapons of war and massive ammunition magazines off our streets, because these police chiefs, they're tired of seeing their guys and gals being outgunned.
In his Culture novels we glimpse the ongoing war between two massive space civilizations.
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The peace that followed these conflicts was characterized by increasing tension and competition, numerous war scares and massive increases in armaments on both land and sea.
This is an idea that's been debated for decades - at least since London's massive expansion in the inter-war period, when planning rules didn't really exist and London became "Greater London", with a much greater population to match.
We now live squarely in the Cyber-war Era and it has massive implications long term.
In 1755, British General Edward Braddock was mortally wounded as his troops suffered a massive defeat during the French and Indian War.
With the end of the Cold War, the threat of a massive bipolar nuclear exchange has, thankfully, abated.
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Repeating the impact of World War II today would require a truly massive effort.
In the small town near the depot, a massive flag in a park across from the local war memorial waved at half-staff.
The Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict was adopted at The Hague (Netherlands) in 1954, as a consequence to the massive destruction of the cultural heritage in the Second World War.
At the outset of that time, the United States redirected the massive industrial resources it had built up to win the biggest war in history into a consumer economy.
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Despite a pedigreed cast, including Everybody Loves Raymond's Patricia Heaton, and a massive marketing campaign--not to mention a network bidding war to air the show--the newsroom comedy failed to find an audience.
The divide was a massive, sprawling boundary not determined by politics, religion, or war but by tectonics, granite, and gravity.
The threat of massive retaliation in the nuclear context only deterred all-out nuclear war, but not the many other conflicts that plagued the latter half of the 20th Century that did not rise to the level of provoking a nuclear response.
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Manson was initially sentenced to death for the grisly 1969 slayings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and eight others by a group of his followers -- called his "family" -- as part of what prosecutors said was an attempt to incite an apocalyptic race war between whites and blacks during the country's massive social unrest.
There is compelling coverage of the year's major news events: Iran, the war in Iraq, the Minneapolis bridge collapse and the massive southern California wildfires.
Professor LEONARD WONG (Military Strategy, Army War College): At this point, it's not cause for a massive alarm, but it is cause for concern.
Between SOPA, ACTA, The Megaupload shutdown and the massive Anonymous retaliatory attacks, two entrenched sides seem to be settling into a long, hard war.
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It was a massive victory for advocates of an open internet, but it was by no means the end of the war.
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