American intelligence and policy statements could never get it right: Assad was, alternately, a dead man walking or firmly in the saddle.

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However, they could never get it quite right.

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"The money dried up -- and it dried up right after the Cleveland debate, and we never could get it back, " a source close to Walker said of the August 6 debate.

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We never seemed to get the right feeling - maybe it was too far away from the stages.

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The time clearly is right for a different collective bargaining relationship between the industry and the UAW. Indeed if they do not get it right now, they may never.

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"PPI mis-selling is seen as a huge scandal that should never have happened and it is right that consumers are able to get swift and proper redress, " Mr Cridland wrote.

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Bill Clinton , in his usual manner, made a few empty gestures in the right direction (the White House Web site), but he never seem to get it himself--indeed, a few well-chosen URLs might have saved him from impeachment.

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