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The Soviets had begun to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan, but MIG warplanes were still carrying out daily bombing and strafing runs, and in the slummy southern suburbs of Kandahar there was a front line where both sides were dug in.

By today, the absence of any conciliation made it clear that both sides were digging in, wholly resistant to any opposing arguments.

A budget crisis will return in weeks and both sides are dug in, with Mr Obama demanding more tax revenues, and Mr McConnell (Mr Biden's pal) growling that tax talks are "finished", and by the way, there will be no time to discuss gun control while budget wrangles continue.This is not all Mr Biden's fault.

Now, however, with the conflict's second official ceasefire underway, both sides are dug in.

But for the moment both sides are digging in.

With up to $30 million in back pay on the line, the United States Supreme Court is set to hear the appeal in February, and both sides are digging in.

But with just a couple of days to the expiration Sunday of an Israeli freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank, both sides are digging in.

With the fishing season set to open in August, both sides are digging in on what promises to be another long-running confrontation.

Both sides are digging in for clashes over President Bush's tax cuts, federal spending and earmarks, the cost of health care proposals and all sorts of other politically charged issues.

Instead, both sides are digging in for a long fight.A second possible outcome is that the two standards will coexist, and dual-format players capable of handling both kinds of disc will render the standards war irrelevant as happened in the tussle over recordable DVDs.

If anything, both sides are digging themselves deeper and deeper into uncompromising positions.