The company is in an urgent race to control the last giant sources of oil in the waning days of the petroleum era.
The attorneys who specialize in takeover litigation are already at their computers cutting and pasting verbiage from lawsuits past to assemble cases they can race to the courthouse to get control, or at least a lucrative piece of, the inevitable settlement.
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The chips also let phones talk directly to card-swipe terminals in stores, which has set off a race to organize and control the new world of mobile payments.
Gronholm had led the race in his Ford before crashing out on stage eight, handing control of the race to Loeb.
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Mr Thune replies that this race will not be decisive to control of the Senate anyway, because of close contests elsewhere, and that South Dakota would be better served by a balanced team: Mr Daschle plus someone like himself with proven influence in the White House.
And although Raikkonen nibbled at Hamilton's lead at times through the middle period of the race, the McLaren always appeared to be in control.
Then, finally, Farah sprinted to the front to take control of the final lap and turn it into a speed race, daring his rivals to come with him rather than trying to win from behind as he did in the 10, 000.
Rossi struggled to control his bike on and was only able to qualify in 18th place, but he intends to race after testing his injury in the warm-up.
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Meanwhile, Governor Romney once supported a cap-and-trade mechanism to control carbon emissions but as the 2008 presidential race neared, he backed off and favored modest penalties for coal-fired power plants.
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Last season the network upgraded the audio to Dolby 5.1 and added features like the Race Control view in its iPad app.
Despite the British team having control of the peloton throughout the race, they struggled to close the gap on the lead group and Cavendish was nowhere in sight as Vinokourov out sprinted Uran to the finish line in front of Buckingham Palace.
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What normally happens in these situations is that the driver who benefits from cutting the corner subsequently allows the guy he passed to overtake him, although there is usually some discussion with race control first.
Torricelli, whose poll numbers plunged amid an ethics scandal, pulled out of the race Monday, saying he did not want to be responsible for Democrats losing control of the Senate, where they hold power by a single vote.
Lewis made a legitimate pass and then was repassed - at the time the team asked race control several times about the repass but they were too busy to answer that question so we felt the decision in the immediate aftermath was fair.
But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.
"I lost the throttle on turn nine which I was told was due to a failure on one bank of the control system, " Coulthard said when his race was over.
Debates can change voters' minds but I think much more likely to affect this race if there's any other jolt to it would be events, outside events that the candidates have no control over.
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