1.   An even higher stakes battle is occurring over Internet auctions.

2.   But total victory in the high stakes battle to contain the nuclear threat will take more than a treaty.

3.   That battle is the most far-reaching of many ideologically charged policy disputes to come in the fall, also setting the stage for a high stakes election battle.

4.   Pfizer Inc. emerged Thursday as the likely winner in the high stakes battle for rival drugmaker Warner-Lambert Co.