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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.
At the international tournament of town criers, hear local newsmongers in 18th-century costume pitting their Oyez!
Taken together, these observations appear to effectively refute the prediction of a CysRS activity, thus pitting computational results against experimental data.
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.
Faced with two challenges--the antitrust case and the network-paradigm alliance--Microsoft is pitting the latter against the former.