1.   But the past few months have brought signs of a rapprochement between the Social Democrats and their erstwhile bitter foes.

2.   Johnson is widely known in Arkansas as a bitter foe of the president.

3.   Kumaratunga, leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, and Wickremesinghe are bitter foes.

4.   Kerasiotes and DeNucci have tangled often over privatization and are bitter foes.

5.   Meanwhile, the McDermott controversy disappeared from the headlines, but he has not been forgotten by his bitter foes.

6.   The classic cases of nominees taking bitter foes onto the ticket are JFK and Reagan.

7.   After her dismissal, she became a bitter foe of President Leonid Kuchma and led an opposition movement.

8.   Bolger said he would approach Peters even though the two have been bitter political foes.

9.   Branson, long a bitter foe of British Airways, said he would support the others if they complain to competition authorities at the European Commission.

10.   Djukanovic is a bitter foe of Milosevic, who was president of Serbia and now serves as president of Yugoslavia.