A retail dynasty closes ranks after a bartender accuses its billionaire patriarch of drugging and raping her.
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Even so, two-thirds of them already say they will vote for her in November, and the number will surely rise as the party closes ranks in the summer.
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"When you lose a brother or sister, everybody in a family closes ranks and that's what we did our education family closed its ranks," Schumaker reportedly said, underscoring Ben's loyalty.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Hardliners are set to tighten control of Iran this week in a parliamentary election stacked in their favor, as the leadership closes ranks in a deepening confrontation with Washington.
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For the first time, Republican leaders opposed to Mr. Trump's candidacy said they believed there was a chance to break his grip on New Hampshire as the party establishment closes ranks around a smaller number of candidates and Mr. Trump faces new threats on the right.
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A clash between a sales department and production over inventory policy would be an example of horizontal strain. Certain activities and attitudes are typical in groups involved in a win-lose conflict. Each side closes ranks and prepares itself for battle. Members show increased loyalty and support for their own groups.
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Over the next few days, a psychological war ensues. Peter, Hugo's business associate, wants to use the cover-up to leverage power over the estate. Jamie, who's dating Hugo's sister, wants to go to the police to report it. Hugo's family closes ranks as Ginny and the rest side with Hugo, who fears that his arrest and imprisonment will ruin the family's reputation.
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A battle and the intervention of Johnny allow Jeppard and the women to escape with the children and Dr Singh, who insists on coming. Seemingly, Buddy is lost to the murderous attentions of the hybrid cultists... and at the same time seems to think Jeppard is his father. Despite the emotional turmoil, the group closes ranks to protect the children still with them. Buddy is taken by Abbott who murders the head cultist to do so.
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Garner, who could not access the two female complainants due to their refusal to speak to her, used her own personal experiences to highlight feminism, female and male sexuality, sexual harassment, as well as abuse of power and fraternalism in universities. The book became a bestseller, but it was hotly debated both in Australia and United States by some critics and feminists as an example of victim blaming. Janet Malcolm, writing for the New Yorker in a 1997 review of The First Stone, says that Garner "closes ranks with the abuser". Australia's first woman Premier was Carmen Lawrence, becoming Premier of Western Australia in 1990.
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Watson was born in Darwen, Lancashire, England. His book The Noisy Ducks of Buxtehude is a dual-language text (English/German)aimed at very young readers. A 1989 profile in the U.K. children's books magazine Books for Keeps noted that a theme of Watson's work was "a universal fight for human rights", and that three of his novels, "adventure thrillers set amid the Spanish Civil War (The Freedom Tree), the Chile of the ‘disappeared’ (Talking in Whispers), and a contemporary Britain where the Establishment closes ranks over nuclear secrecy (Where Nobody Sees)" had been praised "for their exciting action, their passion and their challenge to debate.""Authorgraph No. 58: James Watson", Books for Keeps 58 (September 1989).
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