Hoping to defuse yet another controversy, the Interior Department, members of Congress, environmentalists and hunting groups recently reached a delicate compromise aimed at enacting a substantial overhaul of refuge legislation.

For the last month, politicians have been suggesting compromises aimed at satisfying both Bonn and Berlin.

Effort to Save Jobs The Senate bill was devised as a compromise aimed at preserving jobs.

Mayor Koch called the bill a "reasonable compromise," aimed at preventing "the wholesale loss of S.R.O. units."

Judging by what he has done and said lately, Mr. Morales seems likely to find a sartorial compromise aimed at pleasing as many voters as possible.

Today's action was an adroit compromise aimed at curbing an unusual public dispute among the bishops.

The bill represented a compromise aimed at accommodating the strong reservations of many Christian Democrats, the senior government coalition partner.

The Senate minority leader held his troops firmly in line last week to kill off President Clinton's economic stimulus bill, rejecting all compromises aimed at ending a Republican filibuster.

The measures, which will be phased in beginning in 2004, are a compromise aimed at splitting the cost of emissions reductions between automakers and refineries.

The provisions for tax concessions in the directive on emissions are a compromise aimed at fulfilling two of the EU's objectives: a well functioning internal market, and protection of the environment.