Still, the option of keeping war politically palatable by limiting the body count has never been a serious one here.

To make this politically palatable, the reductions would be phased in.

Mr. Clinton made the deal politically palatable at home by including appropriate conditions.

Given those and other factors, nursing homes are a far more politically palatable cause than hospital financing was last year.

Lawmakers passed the bill relying on a much lower - and politically palatable - figure of $400 billion.

"It was the only politically palatable way to get the process moving ahead," said a senior official, who spoke on condition he not be named.

But in practice, finding a set of changes that are politically palatable will be difficult.

Television viewing certainly makes a more politically palatable target than women's paid labor.

There are few other politically palatable options for financing military modernization.

But Republican leaders in Congress continue to search for a politically palatable solution.