Mr. Graham's friends predict he will run a dogged campaign.

Tactics in Mr. Jones's dogged campaign have ranged from searching for Mr. Gingrich with bloodhounds to a hip-hop commercial on the theme "Newt.

All said they were impressed by Mrs. Clinton's dogged campaign, which won unusual support in Republican strongholds upstate and slowly seemed to them to smooth the edges of her White House reputation.

Since January, most of the major candidates she defeated in a dogged campaign to become the city's second public advocate have chiseled a higher profile at City Hall.

In Pennsylvania, Senator Arlen Specter overcame a dogged campaign by Lynn Yeakel, prevailing by a couple of percentage points and holding the seat for Republicans.

After a very effective and dogged campaign by Governors, Staff and Parents, a Sixth Form was added.

It is also the story of a dogged, mostly unseen campaign that included a small army of lobbyists in Washington and a network of industry-financed groups, which carried the drug makers' message to the public.

Only a very broadly established, very expensive and dogged international campaign can effectively tackle this large-scale problem.

After a dogged campaign by a Haddon Township elementary school teacher and her class, it was named state dinosaur in 1991.

"This is the story of an enormously successful and dogged campaign to change the conventional view of the right to bear arms," he said.