Some Democrats are hoping to make the bitter pill easier to swallow by securing other provisions they favor.
These include specially shaped cups as well as gels or sprays that make the pills slippery and easier to swallow.
The Senate bill would also include a boost for businesses by allowing firms to adjust their accounting to make it easier to swallow losses.
Mr Gummer says the pill would be easier to swallow if rail travellers in the east felt they had a modern and efficient train service.
We found ourselves tapping at the panel simply out of habit, but quickly adapted to the non-touch model -- the comfortable, responsive keyboard and clickpad certainly make that omission easier to swallow.
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But perhaps the tough times we've weathered will make this an easier pill to swallow.
The Fed's next step could be a cut in the fed funds rate, or, a move that hasn't been seen lately, a cut in the discount rate to make it easier for banks to swallow their pride.
If caloric restriction has such a huge benefit, couldn't we get it in an easier-to-swallow package?
Within the single-currency area competitiveness has to be regained the hard way by pushing down domestic costs or increasing productivity rather than the easier-to-swallow medicine of devaluation.
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In 1980, Reagan emphasized an easier-to-swallow message of tax cuts, not spending cuts -- and indeed promised that he'd protect the Medicare program he'd opposed when it was created in the mid-1960s.
Mordashov's decision to take a smaller bite of Luxembourg-based Arcelor--210 million new shares, or about 25% of the enlarged company, instead of the previously proposed 295 million shares, which represented 32%--may make the Kremlin-backed oligarch's plans easier for investors to swallow.
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Ingestible sensor chips are an idea a little easier for most people to swallow.
But that didn't make Triestina's move any easier for its fans to swallow.
The levity in the sitcom made it easier for many viewers -- and me -- to swallow.
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