Word: thorniest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always hopeful that all Cambridge City Councillors will meet issues open-mindedly. The recent Chamber of Commerce Housing Study by Herman Leonard of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government tries to start a dialogue about the city's thorniest problem, housing policy...
...fate of the jailed Cubans is one of the thorniest immigration dilemmas ever faced by Washington. Originally detained by the INS for admitting they had criminal records, most of those held in Atlanta have since been found "excludable" by administrative law judges. The Carter Administration had begun to develop a plan to review the cases of all 1,800 and free those judged not dangerous, but the Reagan White House froze the releases so the matter could be studied further...
...U.M.W. members is considered almost certain to take place when the current agreement expires this week. At the last negotiating session the union demanded wage and benefit increases over three years totaling 46%, while the operators offered only a 20% raise. Yet money is not the thorniest problem. Indeed, some industry observers believe that both sides will eventually settle on about a 35% hike. Instead, the talks bogged down over a bin of noneconomic issues. To increase productivity, for instance, the operators want to mine coal on Sundays, a proposal that many workers, especially those in Bible Belt coal fields...
...future of East Jerusalem is unquestionably the thorniest problem of all. Certainly no Israeli government could renegotiate its status and hope to survive. The Palestinians are adamant that East Jerusalem must be returned to Arab sovereignty, yet they also agree that the city should not be redivided. It is conceivable that an eventual compromise might be reached by which West Jerusalem would remain the capital of Israel and East Jerusalem would become the Palestinian capital. According to one such plan, the city could be operated under a borough system, with a council elected by both communities, and with Jewish...