The health bill survives, but as a messy patchwork of compromises with various interest groups.

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It is simply an attempt to cut through the charges and countercharges on this tariff issue by various interest groups, and shed some light on the implications of the policy.

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TV, NetChannel can turn a television set into an Internet terminal that enables users to send e-mail, interrogate the Web or share ideas with various interest groups around the world (eg, alt.nature.beehives).

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Obama adopted the cynical strategy of the opportunistic politician his campaign was directed to various special interest groups to line up their votes.

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If Steve Jobs was elected President and helped expunge the deficit and meaningfully shrunk the debt in 8 years, but he never gave speeches honoring various special interest groups around the country, this is the kind of post Sorkin would write about his Presidency.

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It would be ironic indeed if an American administration substantially staffed by individuals associated with various arms control interest groups were to endorse a proposal at odds with the newly declared objective of curbing conventional arms proliferation.

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