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He worked as a coal-miner in his teens, was drafted in 1943, and spent much of the war driving a truck for a mess squadron in Arizona.
ECONOMIST: Charles Bronson
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This build-up transformed the war, driving the FARC away from the towns.
ECONOMIST: Why the FARC's defeat looks to be only a matter of time
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Where Jango, or its equivalents, work, comparison shopping will become so easy that it will no doubt trigger a price war, driving prices down to commodity levels.
ECONOMIST: Intelligent agents
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Computer geeks call it war-driving or Net stumbling: roving around with a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop to scan for nearby Wi-Fi access points, then trying to see if they can use them for free.
FORBES: The Days Of Wi-Fi Scanning Are Numbered
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While plasma displays also saw great gains, performance improvements, and price drops this year, LCD effectively fought the war on two fronts, driving down prices in small televisions while getting more competitive with plasma at 42-inch and larger sizes.
ENGADGET: Switched On: The 2006 Switchies -- Home Products
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Among voters' worries, the cost of driving easily eclipsed the war in Iraq, unemployment, health care or terrorism.
ECONOMIST: Finding more oil has become the first issue of the campaign
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Just today, Life Technologies announced that it is expects to increase the speed of its smaller, cheaper DNA 10-fold in just six months, illustrating how a war between makers of DNA-sequencing gear is driving the science behind this type of research.
FORBES: A Big And Dangerous Day For Personalized Medicine
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They are the fantastic play of light and dark from a feverish mind that perceived acutely the driving issues of its time, but could wage war only with the tools of the artist.
NPR: Yaron Kohlberg: Fighting Schumann's Battles
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When alcohol regulation flared up again in the 1980s, during the debate over stricter punishments for drunk driving, the debate never turned into a culture war because "alcohol" was not code (as it had been a century before) for a dozen other identities and grievances.
CNN: What if abortion became a non-issue?
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To Fleming's target audience, emerging from both post-war austerity and traditional codes of morality, womanising was just another aspirational activity like driving fast cars and sipping cocktails.
BBC: James Bond: How his sex life compares with an average man