Galveston's tangled relationship with the energy industry — and with BP in particular — is made thornier by the explosion at the company's refinery in neighboring Texas City in 2005, which killed 15 workers and injured more than 170.
Then, nearer to the Festival, comes the important offer from fixed-odds bookmakers to accept bets on a "non-runner, no bet" basis, making thorny issues such as multiple entries a lot easier to handle.
MAX J. SKIDMORE Overland Park, Kan., March 21 , 2012The Writer Responds Several excellent suggestions emerge from readers' letters, including comments about Oregon's experience with making thorny Medicaid spending decisions, the need to "take some hits" to rein in Medicare spending, and a desire to let the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute perform its job.
The HFEA took the three years since then to assure itself that the scientists it has licensed, at the University of Newcastle, would observe proper technical and ethical safeguards in their work.The existence of a body like the HFEA may make thorny bio-ethical decisions easier.
Keeping Claussen would have made those thorny decisions a little easier.
And lately his days have been packed with meetings as he labors to steer an inexperienced Council through budget negotiations made unusually thorny by the city's dire financial condition.
After a delay while a herd of elephants pass, we bounce into a small settlement: each family has a hut inside a fence of tall reed stalks, nearby is a rudimentary kraal made of thorny branches where the cattle are kept at night.
Early progress was made on thorny issues of restructuring local government debt and wrenching the Chinese economy away from high-polluting industries such as steel and cement.
Questions about what does and does not count as a religion have made for thorny legal issues in the past, and it's unclear whether the United Fellowship Center's new status will prompt any lawsuits from Madison residents.
Those concerns have been made even thornier by Edward J. Snowden's leaks about spying in Europe by the National Security Agency.
