The latter festival regularly has its share of bidding wars, bruised feelings and even occasional fistfights.

The occasional testosterone-fueled fistfights at disaster scenes?

Sherill E. Moore, who helped start the center in the early 70's, said that in those days violence among teen-agers in New Haven took the form of occasional fistfights.

The talks, punctuated by the occasional fistfight, underscore just how hard it will be to rebuild economic, legal and social structures that were long ago destroyed.

Many of the patrons say they have come to accept the searches and occasional fistfight as part of a night out.

An occasional fistfight or two is inevitable in any place that serves liquor.

Impromptu protests, name-calling and the occasional fistfight among anarchists, squatters and advocates of real-estate development have become the norm in recent years.

They have a similar theme: a bunch of middle-aged white guys, some in crazy outfits, chasing each other around with occasional fercious fistfights breaking out.

He even had to break up the occasional fistfight in the audience.

On the hustings, violence has been limited to occasional fistfights.