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...advantages: a firm focus on national security. With Obama on an international globe-trot, McCain was forced to spend the week reacting to the Democrat's every move rather than aggressively shaping the debate with his own message. The fight to control the agenda is usually an ongoing tug-of-war between the two candidates. In this case, Obama dominated the story line, dragging the GOP along in his wake. Independent data and worried GOP pollsters suggest that McCain, as of now, can hope for few blue-state victories this fall. A slew of red states are currently in play...
Congress is involved in an intense tug-of-war with the Administration over SDI funding. The Administration is asking for $4.8 billion in SDI research money for 1987, an increase of 72% over this year's budget. No way, says a bipartisan group of 48 Senators who have signed a letter asking for a $2 billion cut in money for SDI, arguing that funding should be kept to "approximately 3% real growth." Some legislators are reluctant to fund SDI because they see it as the death knell of SALT II, the ABM pact and arms control in general. Aspin predicts...
...never lasts. It can't. Being in two relationships is inherently unsustainable. It's like a house of cards. And the longer it keeps going, the more likely it is to come crashing down. And then the pressure mounts and the central structure is that three-way tug of war. The person who is cheating is just trying to keep everything stable, the same, not changing anything. The two other people, the lover and the spouse, are putting pressure on, if the spouse knows about it. If the spouse doesn't, she still is wanting more time, more...
...ghosts of the past have an enduring power in Nicaragua, which is why the legendary nationalist guerrilla general Augusto Sandino has become the object of a political tug-of-war between the government and its naysayers. Sandino died in 1934, but his mantle - and iconic sombrero - has long been claimed by the Sandinista Front, which overthrew the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in 1979. The Sandinistas, of course, are back in power under President Daniel Ortega, but a group of old-school Sandinista revolutionaries charge that Ortega has betrayed the movement's leftist principles - and they want Sandino...
...addition to being caught at the center of the tug of war between writing books and producing primary research, popular scientists are constantly debating exactly how to present the diversity of their fields to the public...