61.   Further, inspections raise particularly thorny issues of industrial or national espionage.

62.   GM is likely to benefit from the increasingly thorny issues at Ford.

63.   Gorbachev said he hoped the foundation, which plans to invite world leaders to a series of colloquia, would tackle thorny issues such as disagreements over trade.

64.   He also pledged to tackle some thorny issues, such as funding Medicare and Medicaid, and reforming campaign finance laws.

65.   He has worked particularly hard on thorny social issues like affirmative action.

66.   He has co-authored a book on Social Security reform, a politically thorny issue that still interests him deeply.

67.   He declined to estimate the cost of the improved infrastructure, which would most likely prove a thorny issue.

68.   He just got the FCC off his back on the thorny issue of foreign ownership of American TV stations.

69.   He was helped with this thorny issue by San Francisco police Captain Michael Yalon, who testified from long experience that pasties are OK.

70.   His efforts failed, but he scored some political points by tackling the thorny issue.