To some long-time reporters of the scrappier Examiner and the often more institutional Chronicle, this is like asking the New York Yankees to join forces with the Boston Red Sox.
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The council, composed of 33 presidents of major unions, is debating how to make the federation a scrappier, more effective organization, to regain some of organized labor's lost ground.
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Scrappier, in that, presumably for budgetary reasons, there have been a lot of small-scale events that might not seem to belong in a festival devoted to the special and the unusual.
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Through the old gold and silver mining towns of San Antonio and El Triunfo, cactus are fewer but scrappier, growing straight out of solid rock overhangs that threaten to avalanche, or so signs warn.
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Mikael Wood of " Neptune City, Atkins trades that album's lush torch-song vibe for scrappier indie-garage arrangements that drain much of the drama and romance from her music ".
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The smaller but scrappier of the two national teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers has swelled by more than 100, 000 to top 1 million members under Feldman's leadership over the last two years.
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The advances in technical ability _ accelerated by a growing number of competitions _ has made the fight for the podium a scrappier, performance-driven competition, in both men's and women's skating.
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In doing so, Morgan provided proof anew of how quickly the arrangements that once separated the prestigious " institutional " side of the investment world from the scrappier " retail " side are falling apart.
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If anything, this six-hour version, showing Sunday and Monday on the A & AMP; E cable channel, is scrappier than the BBC's two past productions of " Vanity Fair ."
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In the eyes of the Gore campaign, at least retrospectively, it validated the scrappier McCain as the true insurgent and seemed to give Bradley's stamp of approval for independent-leaning Democrats to vote for McCain.
