1.   Before that could happen, secession backers would face vehement city resistance and tough bureaucratic battles.

2.   Caught in the middle of these bureaucratic battles are the students and those who plan and prepare school lunches.

3.   Investors are betting the reorganization -- long delayed by bureaucratic battles over the responsibilities and the spoils --is close to becoming a reality.

4.   Investors are betting the reorganization -- long delayed by domestic inefficiencies and bureaucratic battles over the responsibilities and the spoils -- is close to becoming a reality.

5.   Other members of the group expressed concern that they might be pawns in what had become a bureaucratic battle.

6.   Revenge takes the form of bureaucratic battles.

7.   The bureaucratic battle led to a year delay in filming.

8.   The next bureaucratic battle that Parsons faces is a proposal before Congress to build an educational center near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

9.   Three years and many bureaucratic battles later, President Clinton has approved a compromise that moves in the right direction, but not far enough.

10.   Whatever bureaucratic battles Powell may win or lose in Washington, the forum made it clear that he has no pop culture peer within the administration.