Word: thorniest
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Also on the agenda are China's possible interest in buying arms from the U.S. and its desire to expand commercial ties. All the talks, however, will be overshadowed by what remains the thorniest issue: Taiwan. Reagan has dampened his support for the island nation considerably since he became President. The turning point came in August 1982, when the U.S. signed a communiqué with China pledging "to reduce gradually" its arms sales to Taiwan. By the spring of 1983, when the U.S. loosened its export rules for a technology-hungry China, Peking had begun to warm toward Reagan. Five Cabinet...
...airliner tragedy is one of the thorniest problems yet faced by the pro-Moscow French Communists in their uneasy 28-month alliance with the Socialist-dominated government of President FrançMitterrand -and one that has again raised speculation that the Communists ultimately will leave or be invited out of the government. In past months the party has disagreed with its coalition partner on a variety of issues, from the government's strong support for NATO's plan to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Western Europe to French intervention in Chad. The attacks, however, tended to become muted...
...Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha, was bothered by the demonstration, he gave no sign of it. After a private discussion with Secretary of State George Shultz, followed by a working lunch, Botha claimed confidently that the U.S. had a "real chance" of resolving one of southern Africa's thorniest problems: getting independence for Namibia, a vast, arid territory controlled by South Africa. Echoed a senior State Department official in response to Botha's optimism: "We do feel we have something viable...
...liver and a good chance to recover from biliary atresia, a congenital liver defect that generally leads to death before the age of four. Justine Pinheiro is still waiting for a transplant to give her the same chance. The disparity in their fates raises one of the thorniest ethical questions facing modern medicine...
Witten is a textbook illustration of a syndrome Harvard officials call one of the thorniest features of academic life today. The rising number of two-career marriages has caused personnel problems in many occupations, but in none more than in academia...