All in all, it was a near thing for New York diners.
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Above all, these documents reveal that the triumph of the hardliners was a near thing.
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Congressional approval of overdue modernization of the meat and poultry inspection system was a near thing.
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It was a near thing, though.
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But it was a near thing-- one that basically hinged on what had happened to a gray-haired old snoop.
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Although he would lose more than 30 primaries to Dole, Buchanan said the race for the Republican nomination was a near thing.
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Gingrich's re-election, which made him the first Republican to achieve two consecutive terms as speaker since Nicholas Longworth in 1929, was a near thing.
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In the end the Clinton administration scrounged the $ 50 billion that Mexico needed to roll over the debt and halt the flight of capital, but it was a near thing.