81.   Industry officials are spooked by the thorny ethical issues certain to swirl around AIDS vaccine experiments, he said.

82.   It boldly tackles such thorny issues as mental illness and alcoholism and somehow makes them funny.

83.   It resolved no thorny issues.

84.   It took George W. Bush a long time to become personally involved in the thorny issues of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

85.   Just deciding who competes in a particular market is a thorny issue in the Staples dispute.

86.   Like a player who knows his audience intimately, Sasser praised individual senators for their good work on thorny issues like Tibet.

87.   Many of those who work around Kraft know the toll that these thorny issues have taken because they have seen the changes in him.

88.   McCain, who has built coalitions on thorny issues, including campaign financing, seemed well-suited to the task.

89.   Moreover, Reno has been praised widely for her willingness to make tough decisions on thorny issues as diverse as White House scandals.