By contrast, the Senate has barely begun; its Appropriations Committee has plowed through about half the stack of bills and put off the prickliest ones until Congress returns from vacation in September.
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Just outside town, on a hill overlooking the Swans Island Ferry terminal, sits the facade of a Town Hall that would convince even the prickliest property-tax-paying New Englander.
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Rohatyn, a respected investment banker and major Democratic donor for years, begins work at a time when the ever-prickly French-U . S . relationship may be at its prickliest.
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But that is what these two professors have been labeled by Harvard's formidable paleobiologist, Stephen Jay Gould, who has touched off one of the season's prickliest controversies among Cambridge intellectuals.
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The prickliest internal policy issue is being left to private meetings that Wisconsin Gov . Tommy Thompson, platform committee chairman, hopes will head off a divisive struggle at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.
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The prickliest and most forceful of the four women, played in the Chicago production by Irma P . Hall, ends the discussion with a declaration that sums up the credo guiding many civil rights demonstrators.
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And more than perhaps any other policeman, Vannatter has become the defense's cushiest punching bag because he was in charge of the investigation, because he carries the most documented baggage and has the prickliest personality.
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And more than perhaps any other policeman Vannatter has become the defense's cushiest punching bag because he was in charge of the investigation, because he carries the most documented baggage and because he has the prickliest personality.
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Lucasfilm was about to learn the hard way what the rest of Hollywood is just beginning to understand : that ownership on the Web may be one of the prickliest problems facing copyright law since the codes were written years ago.
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The prickliest dispute still looks far from resolved however, how to reconcile France to Washington's steadfast refusal to hand over NATO's Southern Command _ including the U . S . 6th Fleet _ to a European admiral.
