The tech industry is rife with stories of platforms that had superior technology but lost the war in the field.
And in the field of war, what about the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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His first big roll of the dice is on Custom, the alias of Duane Levold, a towering Canadian who was the subject of a noisy bidding war last summer between Field and DreamWorks.
Field's first big roll of the dice for shareholders is on Custom, the nom de plume of Duane Levold, a 6-foot-8 Canadian who was the subject of a noisy bidding war last summer between Field and DreamWorks.
Lesser known candidates with smaller war chests find a level playing field in the early states and an equal opportunity to earn support.
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With large manufacturers like Samsung and Sony now making a play for the space (not to mention Apple and Google, which have both been trying to gain a toehold in the field), expect the war for the living room to heat up this year.
The park, which attracts around 800, 000 visitors each year, was opened by Field Marshal Viscount Allenby as a war memorial park on August 6, 1923.
He was sent to Tomsk in Siberia to interview an out-of-work ballistics missiles expert, was ambushed in a field outside Osijek, Croatia when war broke out in Yugoslavia and undercover in Russia, tried to buy a MiG fighter jet from an arms dealer.
Perhaps there is even a community of married business partners in a similar field with whom a couple can share war stories and compare notes and ideas.
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They have been making preparations for months, if not years, assembling stocks of medicines and recruiting many well-trained doctors who have field experience from the Iran-Iraq war or the Gulf war.
"There tends to be tremendous innovations in the field of prosthetics whenever we're at war, " he said.
Robinson noted that soldiers in the field today are not at risk for Gulf War illness, because the military is no longer using the PB pills or pesticides that led to the illness in 1990 and 1991.
But among the 34 percent who said they disapproved of the war, McCain had a wide advantage over the GOP field -- even over Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the sole advocate of a U.S. withdrawal in the Republican field.
The two parties and their candidates are waging their ad war across a battlefield of about 17 states--a field that has essentially left out major media markets such as Los Angeles and New York.
Ten years ago, in the shadow of the crater at Ground Zero, the smoldering Pentagon and a field of honor in Pennsylvania, America found itself at war.
The war killed civilians as well, as battles raged across farm and field, as encampments of troops spread epidemic disease, as guerrillas ensnared women and even children in violence and reprisals, as draft rioters targeted innocent citizens, as shortages of food in parts of the South brought starvation.
The photojournalist, the country's first woman to rise to prominence in her field, chronicled India's tumultuous midcentury of liberation, war and independence.
So do you think we need something like a sort of latterday Bretton Woods conference like we had towards the end of the last War, do we need to get nations together to make the playing field more even?
When facing a powerful opponent on a field of combat Sun Tzu advises, in the Art of War, to attack the weakest points.
The giant Kirkuk oil field is pumping 500, 000 bpd, compared with 850, 000 before the war.
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And this season even the television show Homeland took the opportunity to address, through the wife of a former prisoner of war, the totally unanticipated emotional consequences resulting from the trauma that combat veterans bring back from the field.
Alexander Hamilton, the subject of this penetrating portrait, was in the thick of it all-from the agitation preceding the American Revolution, through the war itself (as a key staffer for George Washington and then as a courageous officer in the field), to the writing and adopting of the Constitution, to the rise of partisan politics.
In World War I the Allied strategy was to engage and defeat the center of gravity of the Central Powers, the German field army.
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