Her prescription is to "fess up" and take the bitter pill that is cost evaluation.
Some Democrats are hoping to make the bitter pill easier to swallow by securing other provisions they favor.
The U.K. is about the only country in this mess that has already taken the bitter pill of realignment.
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And how Pompey fans enjoyed the sight of their former manager being forced to swallow the bitter pill of defeat at the final whistle.
The latter can be a bitter pill so you may jump at the streamlined program.
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The failure of Iraq to emerge from widespread instability is a bitter pill for the United States, which optimistically toppled the Saddam Hussein regime more than four years ago.
Wadsworth, who was also caretaker manager of the team, said the latest news was a bitter pill to swallow.
Further territorial compromises (having already been squeezed into 22% of pre-1948 Palestine) could also be a bitter pill for the Palestinian faction that favours a two-state solution, the Fatah party led by Mahmoud Abbas.
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But the sugar industry argued this change would be a bitter pill for US consumers and would only add to the confusion about a sweetener that has drawn criticism by some health advocates.
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Making matters worse, this is not a bitter pill that only the rich must swallow.
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In the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in Williamsburg, from which the Glaubers hailed, the arrest is "a sweet bitter pill to swallow because it's good news but on a very sad story, " said community leader and family friend Isaac Abraham.
For home owners struggling with their mortgages, and especially for the unemployed, this may be a bitter pill to swallow.
"It was a bitter pill to swallow, the government admitting that they needed the church, " says Archbishop Wenski, the Miami prelate.
It's a bitter pill, especially as the economic recession bites deeper.
That will horrify the Serbs: if losing Montenegro was a bitter pill, losing Kosovo will be a poison draught.
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"The number of people working there has been squeezed and squeezed over the years and the prospect of significant job cuts is a bitter pill to swallow, " Mr Dawson said.
"To play in the second half down to 10 men is a bitter pill to swallow, " added Hodgson.
The foreign-exchange related lawsuits are also a bitter pill for investors to swallow.
Though the idea of trying the disgraced leader in his own country is increasingly popular among Serbs, the notion of extraditing him to a foreign court is too bitter a pill for many of them to swallow and contrary to Yugoslav law as it now stands.
"It's a sweet bitter pill to swallow, " said Isaac Abraham, a spokesman for the community.
This could mean cuts of well over half a billion pounds each year for Wales - a bitter pill for Welsh ministers after a decade and more of constant increases from the treasury.
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So, yes, the healthcare industry is hiring, but the financial and educational reality of these in-demand jobs might turn out to be a bitter pill for potential workers to swallow.
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