Employees caught ratting on rivals to get ahead or settle a score face firing.

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Held in Terlingua, Texas, in 1967, the debut cook-off was organised to settle a score between the embryonic CASI and an East Coast food writer who reviewed their champion's effort as "Texas mud pudding" in an article boldly headlined Nobody Knows More About Chili Than I Do.

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Rimsha's lawyers said the neighbor wanted to settle a personal score with the girl because the two didn't get along.

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So next up, it's Edinburgh at Murrayfield - and something of a score to settle after the recent narrow defeat in the Magners League.

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"It's not about having a score to settle, " said Beckham.

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But many observers note that Langone has a personal score to settle with Goldman chief Henry Paulson , who was instrumental in the ouster of Langone's friend, former NYSE chief Richard Grasso , in September 2003.

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There's still a score to settle.

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So he would probably settle, to change sporting metaphors, for a no-score draw.

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