For their part, the western banks have squabbled mightily among themselves, losing their collective nerve at every critical juncture.
During the decades Visa was bank-owned, its six regional associations squabbled over international expansion and failed to make much headway.
Richard recalls just one time--25 years ago--when they squabbled over an executive appointment, and theirlate father, Paul, had to mediate.
For decades, now, professors of political theory have squabbled over whether liberty or virtue should be the foundation of American politics.
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Waxman and Scalia then squabbled for several minutes over the meaning and circumstances of previous cases dating back to the 1700s.
At the entrance to the Louvre, the staff would wave me in as they squabbled in furious French with the illegal ticket-sellers just outside the doors.
His cabinet antagonist in that dispute was Alexander Haig, but Mr Weinberger also squabbled with Reagan's second, less excitable, secretary of state, George Shultz.
Even as violence and looting slowed rescues, police from other states were turned back while officials squabbled over who should take charge of restoring the peace.
Nokia, the world's largest handset maker, has long squabbled with Qualcomm over royalty payments, resulting in an escalating patent infringement slap fight between the two companies.
Tension has bubbled between Boston and New York since the 17th century, when the Puritans, who founded Boston, and the Dutch, who founded New York, squabbled over Long Island.
Nearly 200, 000 DirecTV subscribers almost didn't get to watch their beloved New England Patriots play the Super Bowl after DirecTV and Sunbeam Television, media mogul Edmund Ansin's broadcasting company, squabbled over carriage fees.
She has squabbled publicly with her most famous compatriot, microcredit pioneer and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, over his control of Grameen Bank, and with the World Bank over a bridge project linked to corruption allegations.
Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ), the world's largest handset maker, has long squabbled with Qualcomm over royalty payments, resulting in an escalating patent infringement slap fight between the two companies.
Mr Eglin is acutely alive to the way in which the received view of Bath, as a serene and homogenous Georgian polis, works to hide the fact that for most of Nash's time the place was a construction site, squabbled over by a set of bad-tempered competing interests: builders, architects and the city corporation itself.
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