Word: dicey
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...Maine at the top of his list. New Mexico, he said, becomes a Democratic shoe-in if presidential hopeful New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson decides after the early primaries to shift gears and run for the Senate seat being vacated by outgoing Senator Pete Domenici. Things start to get dicey in Minnesota, where the strongest Dem candidate appears to be comedian Al Franken...
...Gonzales is all that stands between the White House and special prosecutors. As dicey as things are for Bush right now, his advisers know that they could get much worse. In private, Democrats say that if Gonzales did step down, his replacement would be required to agree to an independent investigation of Gonzales' tenure in order to be confirmed by the Senate...
...odds with Live Earth's energy-conservation message. Around half the carbon footprint in any given show usually comes from the audience traveling to the concert, and though Live Earth promised to offset those emissions, it wasn't yet clear how - not to mention that offsets are inherently dicey. The Tokyo show drew much of its electricity from an existing solar plant on the grid, but that meant that Tokyo homes and businesses normally supplied by solar would have needed to supplement their power from dirtier sources. That's a net loss for the environment. Many rock stars...
...vague distinction that is thoroughly conflated in the Peer Advising program. But amidst all the confusion about who’s actually in charge, the original task at hand has suddenly been masked—what is to be done with this overwhelmed Harvard neophyte? And will his dicey peer have the answers to all of his questions?FRIEND OR FOE“It’s a fine line between strict friend or a strict adviser,” Sundquist says, especially given the position in which the PAFs are placed. The Peer Advising program designates that its fellows...
...light of the infamous Danish caricature crisis of 2005, one would expect cartooning to be a dicey practice in the Middle East. The scandal, which provoked reprinting and reprisal the world over, and which—according to some reports—led to more than 100 deaths, satirized the prophet Muhammed and broached the contentious permissibility of religious depiction by Muslims and non-Muslims alike. But recently, creative entrepreneurs in the Middle East have sought to recast cartoon strips as productive instruments of cultural change.Combining Western looks—think Spider-Man and Batman—with regional...