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Faced with two challenges--the antitrust case and the network-paradigm alliance--Microsoft is pitting the latter against the former.
Taken together, these observations appear to effectively refute the prediction of a CysRS activity, thus pitting computational results against experimental data.
Whereas Samuelson's text, now in its 15 th edition, staunchly advocates Keynesian prescriptions, Mankiw's is touted as post-ideological, pitting rival schools of thought against each other.
Those possibilities were what he was pitting himself against while his contemporaries in the 1950s, for example, were battling the picture plane.
Since disco came precisely at a time when the privileged classes, in their political incarnation, were busily pitting working-class whites against blacks through such innovations as forced busing, this seems like an odd alliance, to say the least.