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Then, that June, students and administrators reached a hard-fought compromise over the structure of the organization...
...House addendum to boost highway expenditures was rejected, along with a 43 cent increase in cigarette taxes proposed in the Senate to fund health care for the children of the working poor. The White House and GOP leaders lobbied vigorously against the defeated amendments, fearing they would puncture the hard-fought consensus reached after months of negotiations. House Transportation Committee chairman Bud Shuster, a major fan of highway construction, sought to boost the $125 billion budget agreement for highway improvement and construction by about 10 percent. The GOP's top brass joined in the fray, siding with the White House...
...what they have waited for all year long. It's a culmination of 47 hard-fought games and four long months of training...
...fight to tear down every last remnant of moral accountability left in our national life, clear symbols of success are hard to find. Apparently, some activists have found a symbol in the outing of Ellen. But what a pathetic symbol it is. No hard-fought legal battle has been won, no ultimate freedom from discrimination finally afforded. Rather, a sitcom star, already assumed by most to be a lesbian, has decided to openly proclaim her sexuality. This revelation comes as no shock to any fan of the show, and it has already been acknowledged as an attempt to boost ratings...
...President Clinton in last year's New Hampshire primary. His political views -- on foreign aid ("We don't want any, thank you") and crime ("Take it off the streets and put it back in the home where it started") -- often took the edge off in the final days of hard-fought elections. If elected, he promised to improve the Postal Service: "I can lose your mail for half that much." After successfully beating colon cancer in 1995, Paulsen saw the end of the campaign trail looming when he learned last November that he was suffering from brain cancer...