The increasingly bitter standoff reflects a broader problem with the political environment in California that an election to remove a governor does not address.

While the war has included long, bitter standoffs, it has also been punctuated by sudden, tumultuous victories.

The Connecticut legislature, ending a bitter standoff, approved a state income tax.

But NBC is also embroiled in a bitter standoff with the Hollywood studios that supply all those hits.

But as budget talks resumed today after a bitter five-day standoff, negotiators on each side continued to charge that the other was blocking progress toward an agreement.

Here, it's a bitter standoff, despite the affirming sentiments of Mozart's ingeniously multilayered finale.

A bitter standoff in late 1995 and early 1996 had led to a government shutdown.

But their bitter standoff is about more than those issues or the taxpayer dollars they represent.

After a bitter yearlong standoff, India and Nepal appeared today to have agreed on a formula for settling their trade and transit disputes.

In the first sign of a break in a bitter standoff, the White House and Congress compromised on changes in a $82 billion spending bill tonight.