Word: dogfight
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...myriad lobbyists, medical insurers, doctors' groups and pharmaceutical companies as he attempts to change the financing structure of the country's health-care system. The appointment of a relative ingénu to this key post caused widespread surprise. One newspaper carried the headline: "FDP Youngster in a Dogfight." But some analysts say his youth and inexperience in federal government will not be a huge issue. " Rösler is very competent, he's a doctor and he's already served as minister in the regional government in Lower Saxony," Oskar Niedermayer, a political science professor at the Free University...
...Read "Dogfight Over the F-22: Protecting Jobs or the Nation...
...only prospective challengers the F-22's backers are able to cite, and President Obama believes that 187 of them are sufficient. He has pledged to use his first veto if next year's defense authorization bill contains funding for extra F-22s, knowing that losing this dogfight would doom Gates' effort to retool the Pentagon. "We do not need these planes," Obama said on July 13 in letters to Levin and McCain. (See pictures of Obama's family tree...
...second year in a row, the Big Green beat Harvard in the league opener in Cambridge and began the dogfight that begins at the season’s tipoff and often runs until the final buzzer. Dartmouth led by as many as 10 points in the second half before the Crimson whittled the deficit down to three with 12 seconds to play...
After last weekend’s heroics against Cornell, beating Brown was not supposed to be a very difficult task for the Harvard women’s basketball team. But Friday night in Providence, a poor first half placed the Crimson in a dogfight. The team did not panic. The players gathered themselves in the locker room before dominating the Bears (2-25, 1-12 Ivy) in the second half on their way to a 68-47 win that guaranteed Harvard (18-9, 11-2) at least a share of the Ivy League title. “Once...