Making it thornier is that two prominent fellow Republicans in Michigan — Gov. Rick Snyder, a Romney supporter, and Daniel F. Akerson, the chief executive of General Motors — say that thousands of jobs might have been lost had President Obama followed the path that Mr. Romney favored: a managed bankruptcy dependent on private financing.
The same thing has the potential to happen with parental leave — if not at Netflix, then elsewhere — especially when you add in the gender dynamics that make it a traditionally thornier subject than regular time off.
What makes it especially thorny, Dawn said, is that "independence starts in middle school, and it's not the cool thing to be with your parents a lot.
The violence has severed all trust between the Israelis and Palestinians, and it certainly will not make it easier to resolve the thorny issues that broke up the Camp David peace talks last summer.
." Reiner continued, "All along, I, for lack of a better way of coping, had been asking myself, 'What can I do to make art of this?' Now that Nick was doing better, I told them, 'Maybe we can make it a movie.' " The thorny tale doesn't feel like a traditional Rob Reiner film, particularly when a cocky character O.D.'s.
She says she feels a much stronger connection to her sorority than to the university as a whole, whose scattered buildings and thorny bureaucracy can make it hard to get things done.
For Mr. Botstein, the president of Bard College and the music director of the adventurous American Symphony Orchestra, a work's rarity and thorny reputation only make it a more attractive prospect for revival.
One of the most important judgments any political leader has to make when dealing with a thorny problem is whether delay will make it better or worse.
If that, too, was a specter raised by Mr. Powell back in 1968, he must be given some responsibility for making it a prospect too thorny, at least in this election, for the mainstream politicians of our age to engage.
Last year's income-tax rise, which lifted the top marginal rate to 13.3% (and expires in 2018), made it worse.Third, and thorniest of all, is the set of problems arising from California's distinctive approach to policymaking.
Until recently, stretches of the beach were fenced off and the remaining paths strewn with thorny branches, making it hazardous for barefoot fishermen to reach other waters.
