Early this morning, as 1,700 diplomats wrangled over final details of a long-embattled climate treaty, environmental campaigners went through a familiar drill.
Since then, George Bush and John Kerry have wrangled over some details of the combat but the campaign has recently spent far more time on a phoney argument over Swift boats, Vietnam medals and Alabama National Guard records.The main reason for this is that Mr Kerry has been all over the place on Iraq: you could barely tell why he voted for the war or what he would have done differently.
After a five-hour delay of its public meeting as commissioners wrangled over last-minute details, the agency also approved Verizon Wireless's merger with rural carrier Alltel, and Sprint Nextel's merger with wireless broadband provider Clearwire.
The agreement was announced yesterday after a final day of wrangling over details between senior delegations from North Korea, South Korea and the United States at the New York Palace Hotel in midtown Manhattan.
Nearly one year after Congress passed financial changes to rein in the banking sector, more than two dozen of the legislation's rules are behind schedule, and no end to the wrangling over details is in sight.
Despite wrangling over details—French unions, for instance, refused to let their head conductors serve meals to first-class passengers, so the Germans have to do it all they get along well.
To Roxana and Ercole's irritation, Tuscany is still wrangling over details, but Puglia, in the south, enacted legislation in 2012, and several of the region's white stone villages have taken the idea and run with it.
As President Obama and Congress continue to wrangle over details, the final plan must keep the needs of generations of veterans in mind.
It's pretty easy to see that wrangling over details becomes possible for politicians only when they're not terrified of being attacked politically for every word they say.
