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Two book club titans that battled for decades to guide popular literary tastes completed a partnership deal yesterday that executives say will ultimately transform the institutions into a digital hybrid catering to dozens of narrow markets.

Inside, against the rocky incline that Toledo is built upon, one can see the layers of debris: the palace the Romans constructed in the third century; traces of the Moors and Visigoths; and finally the warring factions that battled for Spain during the Civil War.

This is, after all, a state that battled for years over whether to hunt mourning doves (ultimately allowed) and that is already preparing for a fight over whether wolves, newly removed from endangered status in the region, should now be hunted.

Yet Morris, always with an eye for the bigger picture, uses all this page-turning madness to raise important questions about the veracity of reportage, contrasting portraits of McKinney as both saint and sinner that battled for daily supremacy on UK news-stands.

The GOP had traditionally been the party that battled for a balanced federal budget.

A young woman, legs thin as reeds, sat smiling in the chair, its rusted spokes not even glinting in the headlights of taxis that battled for space near the man selling newspapers that, as the moon rose, were starting to feel like history.

She is the first official from a workers center, a nonunion group that battles for immigrant workers, to sit on the council.

There is a distinction between a team that battles for survival and one that calmly asserts its right to play in the top flight.

Paradoxically, the more successful her work was, the less visible it was, and this meant that battling for proper funding was often difficult.

Industrialists then sell their wares to vast fighting forces that battle for control of entire regions of space.

Nicky Campbell and team present the investigation show that battles for consumers' rights.