21.   Confronted by the thorny questions that his settlement-building work raises, the man contradicts himself freely.

22.   However, the commission is likely to avoid the thorny question of whether to end a current rate freeze affecting Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and Southern California Edison.

23.   Kennedy then jumped in, proposing that the Senate delay for another day the thorny question of witnesses.

24.   Liability is an especially thorny question for the airlines, because New York has liberal blame-laying laws that they want the federal government to pre-empt.

25.   Legal experts say the case raises yet another of the many thorny questions that lawyers increasingly have to grapple with in an electronic age.

26.   Most notably, the deal raises the thorny question of how providers of high speed internet access over cable systems should be regulated.

27.   New York-based free-lance writer Linda Peterson tackles these and other thorny questions in a witty yet informative primer of wedding etiquette.

28.   Nor was the thorny question of how to measure the beginning of any serious attack upon Gorazde.

29.   Notably, the deal raises the thorny question of how providers of high speed internet access over cable systems should be regulated.

30.   Now that the Park Service has the Presidio, the thorny question has been how to cover the costs of running the urban park.