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pit

verb as in oppose, play off

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With the miner’s open pit scheduled to run out by the end of December, “the investment thesis now centers around the underground ramp up,” say the analysts.

Appearing in the BBC series, In My Own Words, he revealed the anguish he felt knowing his father was still down the pit while his own life was being transformed by fame.

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That’s an eternal lesson that union bosses ignore when they pit “labor” against managers, and workers suffer the most.

That meant any gap had to be created in the pit lane.

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Silver did say during a broadcast interview Friday that the case gave him “a pit in my stomach.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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