sales war

In this difficult climate, the sales war between booksellers and book clubs raged.

The sales wars generated losses for most suppliers and stories of robots that failed to perform as expected.

This month the big sales title promises to be "Dances With Wolves," already a sales war horse.

In 1953-54, Ford and GM waged a brutal sales war, cutting prices and forcing cars on dealers.

The 1954 sales war between Ford and Chevrolet meant both divisions were shipping vehicles to their respective dealers no matter if there were any orders for them.

There was turmoil in the U.S. automobile market as the Ford-Chevy sales war broke out and the two largest domestic automakers cut prices to gain sales volume.

But like the other WikiLeaks cables, these offer a remarkably detailed look at what had previously been only glimpsed - in this case, the sales war between American diplomats and their European counterparts.

The sales war between Ford and Chevrolet conducted during 1953 and 1954 had left little business for the much smaller "independent" automakers trying to compete against the standard models offered by the domestic Big Three.

But the biggest battles in the book sales war are being fought over those paperback books - priced from $6.95 to $12.95 - that emphasize tax preparation, usually by taking the reader through the various tax forms.

Kanye West and 50 Cent were in the midst of a competitive sales war, with 50 Cent claiming he would end his solo rap career if West sold more albums than he did (remarks he later retracted as terms with of contract conflicted with the promise).

While the negative effect of the Jet on the company's financial condition, it was also a time when market forces, including steel prices and labor costs, as well as the sales war between Ford and Chevrolet contributed to the demise of the smaller "independent" automakers such as Packard, Studebaker, and Willys.