Torpedoing the settlement at this stage, however, would sink the housing market still further.

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Moreover, the US seems to be torpedoing Israel's acquisition of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

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South Korea accuses the North of torpedoing and sinking one of its warships in March 2010, killing 46 sailors.

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Such head-to-head studies are rare, because there is the risk that the new drug won't work as well as the old one--torpedoing sales.

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Now, there have also -- and I get questions usually about the other kinds of statements that seem to be torpedoing any potential for progress or seem to be restatements of ultimatums that would prevent any significant compromise.

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The stated reason was the pressure of the tense international situation - a German U-boat's torpedoing of the RMS Lusitania in May of that year cost 139 American lives - but many reporters suspected Wilson had simply got tired of them.

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Hindenburg, for instance, and even the torpedoing, just three years after the Titanic sank, of the Lusitania, another great liner whose passenger list boasted the rich and the famous, were calamities that shocked the world but have failed to generate an obsessive preoccupation.

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South Korea and the US - with which it has a long military relationship - had already been conducting large-scale military exercises, following the apparent torpedoing of a South Korean warship by the North on 26 March, which killed 46 south Korean sailors.

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