Word: trickyness
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Parking in the streets can be tricky because the parking spaces are unreliable--and anyway, it's against College rules. And for those who do try their luck with the streets, street cleaning can lead to frequent tickets--or worse.
Sometimes, the randomly changing attributes overlapped--both patches turning red at the same instant for example--which made following along a little tricky. But 90 percent of the time, subjects could identify which patch was which at the end of the experiment.
Gore certainly needed to turn the tables somehow. Tuesday saw a rash of newly released polls declaring that in the wake of Sunday's certification, a growing majority of Americans thought Bush was president-elect and Gore should concede. (How many just want somebody to concede was tricky to separate...
It's a tricky posture. Monday, the Bush camp was denied the use of the official White House transition office and the $5.3 million that comes with the keys, and was forced to make noises about opening one of their own. Word was out that Colin Powell, Bush's presumptive...
As a veteran of five transitions himself (including the tricky Nixon-Ford one), Cheney also bemoaned with a lip-curl the "admittedly unusual circumstances" that had wasted three weeks of the normal 10-week turnaround time. "A transition has a direct bearing on the quality of administration that follows it...