That is how Maura Beard, director of strategic communications for Energy Star, describes the Environmental Protection Agency's national "Battle of the Buildings" competition, which celebrated its successes thus far last week with a midpoint weigh-in for the contenders.
Do you foresee a political or neighborhood battle over the prospect of building new, high-density buildings?
Its mix of building, battling and exploration will keep young Lego fans amused.
It's a polished mix of battling and building, with plenty of Legofied characters from the film to play as, and a "season pass" that'll ensure you get all new levels and characters as they're released in the coming months.
The 1896 campaign became, in the Journal, a titanic, circulation-building battle of rural virtue against capitalist rapacity.
And in a sign of the battle building over farm subsidies, Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the majority leader, and 23 other Democratic senators asked Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman to meet with them to determine whether the White House would prevent passage of a 10-year $171 billion measure this year.
(Ms. Mercado was a second runner-up on that show.) When Effie and Deena face off in the second-act climax, in a song interpolated from the film version of "Dreamgirls," it becomes a 21st-century battle of the divas, less about building character than bringing down the house.
Eurovision, a Continental battle of the bands that has been building to a climax this week with live televised semifinals, is often dismissed as tacky, politicized and rarely capable of producing durable stars.
Richard died at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 and the building was never completed.
During battle of the Peter Pan Am Games, he suggests building a wall between Neverland and Wonderland as a viable solution.
