President Truman in the early postwar years had chopped defense spending to the bone, so we fought the first two Korean years living off quartermaster stores leftovers from World War II.

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We wore the quartermaster stores left over from World War II.

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In terms of inconveniencing, we are not stopping stores going out to theatres of war.

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Now it's been almost three months since all the hubbub and our friends over at Format War Central have spotted one of the few Target stores to start offering the BDP-S300.

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When everyone was keen on retail stores to rent DVDs, Netflix avoided the gladiator war with Blockbuster by using mail delivery.

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He explained why stores like his and Google are ready to write the eBook of love, not war.

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It would appear that the stores in the south of that great country have got themselves locked into a price war on a loss leader.

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