Word: thornier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American beauty rosebush. Accepting the memento, Bhutto told the President that the roses would serve as a reminder of her "supportive visit" to Washington. She might have added that, while the atmosphere surrounding her meetings with U.S. officials was cordial, both sides went to considerable effort to avoid the thornier aspects of their relationship...
...last there was something tangible that the American mind knew how to address: an apparent legal transgression, a scandal involving the misuse of money. The diversion became a diversion of its own, distracting attention from the thornier basic issues involved. The messy, demanding job of weighing a policy -- several policies, really -- and passing judgment gave way to the tidier task of searching for a smoking gun. There was even a ready-made framework from an earlier, dissimilar, scandal: What did the President know...
...clubs clearly are private groups so theyare a much thornier issue," said John Roberts ofthe Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts...
...experience since the Plaza Accord, however, indicates that the trade problem is much thornier than that. One of the most immediate effects of a dollar decline should be a decrease in foreign travel by Americans -- but there the U.S. suffered a $5.2 billion deficit last year. Apparently, the rising cost of staying in Paris or Rome has been offset by cheaper air fares, among other things. Moreover, even while the international purchasing power of the dollar has declined since the Plaza Accord, the price of imported goods in the U.S. has often failed to rise by an equivalent amount...
...question of what to do about the alleged excesses of the domestic stock market is considerably thornier. Many people argue that there is little or nothing to be done at all. That feeling is particularly strong within the Reagan Administration, which has a fervent belief in what the President calls the "magic of the marketplace...