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to be sharing the same difficult circumstances, often; y9 G8 [$ \1 Z
with others who would normally be competitors
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When bad weather discouraged tourists from coming to the popular seacoast resort town, the managers of the different hotels in the town knew they were
; i+ ?9 h, Q; T# M& V' r all in the same boat and decided to work cooperatively with one another. |