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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.
The company's proposal, explains the Times , puts Teamster boss Ronald Carey in a tight spot, pitting his UPS members, many of whom are attracted to the apparently more lavish company proposal, against Teamsters working elsewhere, who fear that a UPS pull-out could jeopardize their pensions.
He brought Dayak leaders onto his ruling council but favored the time-honored colonial practice of divide-and-rule by pitting one tribe against another to keep the peace.
Those possibilities were what he was pitting himself against while his contemporaries in the 1950s, for example, were battling the picture plane.
Faced with two challenges--the antitrust case and the network-paradigm alliance--Microsoft is pitting the latter against the former.