Word: sore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kerrey, who's "right" now, but who refused to co- sponsor the Senate bill that would have authorized granting the loan guarantees last fall. Kerrey's other problems include his calling Israel's West Bank settlements "provocative" and his insistence that the U.S. embassy remain in Tel Aviv (a sore point with Israel's government, which wants it moved to Jerusalem...
...danger, though, is that society may turn out to be more like a "salad bar," in which each ingredient is separated by nearly impenetrable barriers and an out-of-place vegetable sticks out like a sore thumb--or a white student at an Asian American Association meeting...
...democracy movement remain in prison, many of them in deplorable conditions. The Chinese gulag is still crowded, and its inmates turned out some of the goods that helped build China's $10.4 billion trade surplus with the U.S. last year. Both the prison labor and the trade surplus are sore points in Washington...
Then your friend at work says his wife had acupuncture for her tennis elbow, and it worked. Or he knows a chiropractor who does wonders with sore backs. Or your sister-in-law comes back from the health-food store with the name of a woman who does shiatsu. "Is that the raw fish or the seaweed?" you ask, laughing very carefully so as not to jiggle your back...
...unwanted guest leave -- and the refusal of Sweden and possibly other countries to which the fugitive spook applied for asylum -- limited his options. Returning to the Soviet Union was an unappealing choice; after all, the presence there of former East German leader Erich Honecker continues to be a sore spot in Moscow's relations with Bonn. According to the German Foreign Ministry, Honecker himself is considering returning to Germany...