51.   The Clinton administration is between a rock and a hard place on the explosive issue.

52.   The delay in paying wages is a politically explosive issue.

53.   The House leadership has not decided how to deal with the potentially explosive issue.

54.   The most explosive issues are human rights and Taiwan.

55.   The most explosive issue is the so-called Larry Bird exception.

56.   The most explosive issues remaining in the budget battle are legislative land mines pitting business interests against environmentalists.

57.   The Medicare reform bill has been politically the most explosive social issue faced by the Republicans since they took the majority this year.

58.   The president has proposed creating bipartisan commissions to take on the politically explosive issue of reducing benefits in the programs to keep them solvent.

59.   The Senate, which traditionally lets the House take the lead on postal issues, is delving into the politically explosive issue as well.

60.   The status of Jerusalem is an explosive issue in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.