1.   But this is a touchy time.

2.   The bomb may turn out to be the work of a few cranks, but it blew up at a touchy time.

3.   The government has permitted its always unrelenting religious right to drive theological wedges between Israel and much of world Jewry, no help in touchy times.

4.   President Rene Preval heads to Washington Tuesday at a touchy time, with the last American troops leaving and the Republicans threatening to cut aid.

5.   It came at a touchy time for relations between the United States and Japan as diplomats and military leaders were negotiating to maintain a U.S. military presence in Okinawa.

6.   News of the damage comes at a touchy time for China.

7.   The outage came at a touchy time for Taiwan, which has been facing growing tensions with China.