Word: fraught
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...civilian griping has heightened the fraught congressional machinations. As Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and their allies seek the final cache of votes required to clear the next hurdle in the House, they have one hand tied behind them. Business-as-usual eleventh-hour incentives are off limits after the pointed backlash against a spate of clumsy sweetheart deals like the so-called Cornhusker Kickback given to Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. That's why the reality for the Democratic Party - that they must all hang together on the health care vote or they will surely all be hung separately...
...many crimes that climate scientists have been accused of lately is that they claim absolute certainty in a field of research fraught with uncertainty. Sure, the planet is warming, say skeptics, but that's happened throughout Earth's history, long before humans were burning fossil fuels. So, how can we be sure this isn't just a natural phenomenon...
Avishai D. Don’s column on Feb. 24, 2010, “Sex, Love, and Purim,” is fraught not only with embarrassing and unconcealed ignorance of the topics on which he dilates, but also, more inexcusably, with a disdain for religious traditions that do not cleave with his poorly elucidated and insufficiently coherent view of “sexual ethics...
Most important, Baradar's arrest marks a turning point in the fraught cooperation between Washington and Islamabad on counterterrorism. Until now, Pakistan was reluctant to help the U.S. hunt down the Taliban's leadership, with whom it had close ties before 9/11. But the Taliban's militancy has spawned terrorism inside Pakistan, and the country's military and political leaders may have finally realized that they cannot get rid of homegrown terrorists without cracking down on the jihadis' Afghan brethren...
...correction than a U-turn. Women are more likely than men to apologize when they're only partially to blame. They even say sorry when they're not at fault, as a way of expressing empathy. For men, an admission of a mistake has always been a little more fraught, tinged as it is with an acknowledgment of weakness. Therefore, the more alpha the male, the more difficult the fessing up. (See the top 10 scandals...