A BATTLE is escalating between two giant French retailers, Carrefour and Casino, over who gets to join up with Pão de Açúcar, Brazil's biggest supermarket chain.
Tensions have been escalating between the Foreign Office and Fox's Department for International Trade, but the former defence secretary's suggestion has apparently been given short shrift by No 10, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
B1 THE ECONOMY -- Tensions are escalating between President Bush's domestic political team and his military policy advisers over whether the administration should turn more of its attention to pressing economic concerns.
Accusations and counteraccusations have been escalating between Iraq's Sunnis and the central government as American troops are withdrawing from the country, an ominous development four years after the worst of the sectarian violence here subsided.
And tensions are escalating between the United States and Pakistan, with the Pakistani government refusing to grant the U.S. access to bin Laden's three wives, and the Pakistani media outing a man they said was the C.I.A.'s Islamabad station chief.
Even as President Bush asks Americans to prepare for a sustained war on global terrorism, tensions are escalating between his domestic political team and his military policy advisers over whether the administration should turn more of its attention to pressing economic concerns.
