Word: clingingly
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...party matter, which should have been decided by De Klerk, but the caucus was eager to call an election as early as May to take advantage of pratfalls by the opposition parties. Botha protests that he is "not looking for power for the sake of power," and does "not cling to posts." But it seems to many of his colleagues that his arbitrary postponement of the election to next year, when it must be held by March, reveals nothing so much as his desire to hold on to power as long...
Konovalchik learned to have faith in his ability to take his opponent down and cling to a lead for a win. He realized he could wrestle aggressively without giving up points, and could usually come back from behind with a take-down or an escape...
...said, 'Oh my God!' " He recalls, "We rushed to the site, tramping around in the mud." Their solution: filter the postoxidation pond water through a man-made wetland before piping it into the bay. The process is called polishing. Algae and other potentially harmful microbes cling naturally to swamp plant roots, starting a food chain. Filter-feeding organisms in the marsh water eat them...
...achieve school integration. In 1986 the Republican National Committee supported the purging of voting lists in Louisiana, ostensibly to eliminate residents who had moved or died but actually, as it conceded in an internal memo, to reduce black turnouts. Only recently, Reagan contended that some black civil rights leaders cling to profitable posts by claiming falsely that blacks are victims of discrimination...
...according to witnesses, some expensive perks. Yet last week MacDonald lost his grip on his honored post. Tainted by allegations that he had accepted bribes from contractors seeking business with the tribe, he declared that he would take an extended leave, but then changed his mind and attempted to cling to power...