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I guess Sandy Berger and the Clintonites are clinging to the fact that the new Russian prez worked with the liberal mayor of St. Petersburg in the late '80s, but that doesn't seem so comforting.
AdRelevance's Ryan says that, at least at this stage of the presidential cycle, campaigns seem to be clinging to more traditional promotional channels.
? If Message in a Bottle is finally about holding onto what's most dear before it's too late, shouldn't we be chucking Costner into the briny and clinging to Newman?
Once past this obstacle course, you’ll see the cave mouth and a seething mass of leathery bats clinging to the rock face, here and there dropping off, circling and then coming in to land again.
And is a resistance to that fashion, a clinging to conventional spellings, just a class marker and a reactionary one at that?)