21.   For Netanyahu, the handshake guaranteed a bitter struggle with the nationalist right, which backed him in the expectation that he would halt the reconciliation with the Palestinians.

22.   Hans Baer seems tailor-made for representing Swiss banks in their bitter struggle with Jewish organizations over the recovery of assets belonging to Holocaust victims.

23.   He was unable to prevail in the bitter struggles over the two international trade agreements.

24.   If he prevails, the bitter struggles over trade which have damaged US-Japan relations deeply in recent years are likely to continue.

25.   In any case, recent events have upped the ante on Golden Pond, pitting locals against state officials in a bitter struggle.

26.   In the last century, the Roman Catholic Church wasted much energy and goodwill in a bitter struggle against democracy.

27.   McCain, who is on vacation in the South Pacific, suspended his presidential campaign last week but stopped short of endorsing Bush after their bitter primary struggle.

28.   More than two years later, Khatami is embroiled in a bitter struggle with hard-line Muslim clerics who oppose his plans for a more democratic form of Islamic rule.

29.   No doubt about it, though, only the NBA, with its renowned telegenic genius, could turn a bitter internal struggle into a live labor lottery.

30.   Now Clinton, though hardly home free in his bitter legal struggle with independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr, can reasonably contemplate the completion of a full second term.