But the discounters may retaliate with their own price cuts, leaving both with lower profits.

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Mr. Kesslen expects Apple to retaliate with its own lawsuit against Motorola shortly.

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If they were to raise them again, other countries could demand compensation at the World Trade Organisation or retaliate with higher tariffs of their own.

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For the past 20 years we've believed that no war will be launched as long as each side knows it can retaliate with a deadly counterstrike.

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Another might be fear that the aliens would retaliate with even more devastating weapons, in the same way that no one used poison gas in World War II for fear of the consequences.

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Better yet, a policy to retaliate combined with other actions--such as installing active defenses, increased passive defenses, and assuring military survivability--would decrease the likelihood of an EMP attack against the United States because such measures would make a strike less likely to succeed.

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"In fact, the tax proposal may even cause other countries to retaliate, raising taxes on U.S. companies with multinational operations, " Paulson said.

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Turkey has threatened to retaliate should Israel continue to drill for oil and gas along with Cyprus.

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Now an emerging market faced with protectionism from Europe, you know, they would retaliate.

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He ran a smart race, snarled, boasted, was entertaining, campaigned in a sweatshirt ("Retaliate in '98"), sat in on the televised debates with his two opponents (who didn't bother to mess with him), kept saying he was no politician and expressed himself more bluntly than had been customary in Minnesota politics.

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