Word: fraught
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...addition, the NEA expanded on a detailed anti-obscenity pledge that recipients have been required to sign by setting up a process to investigate charges of obscenity from "any responsible source." At first blink, the procedure sounded so cumbersome and so fraught with potential for misuse by accusers seeking publicity that many in the arts said NEA money might no longer be worth having. Impresario Joseph Papp of the Public Theater, which spurned one $50,000 NEA grant and expects to reject another for $325,000, denounced the new procedure as "a kind of cultural vice squad with people ratting...
Kermit and Miss Piggy: Unrequited love, sexual tension, conflicting interests, difference in species--Kermit and Piggy have a lot of romantic hurdles to overcome, but at least they aren't trying to get a college degree at the same time. Love between the amphibian and the porcine may be fraught with problems, but it doesn't compare to a River-Quad relationship...
Unlike hiring more minority faculty, a process fraught with complications that will take years to accomplish, eliminating the legacy preference could be accomplished with the stroke of a pen, should the administration ever be pressured into doing...
...undergraduates say that the Institute's coming has been fraught with problems, placing threats on control over...
Today social and political integration remains fraught with ambiguity. Seen as a "model minority" rather than as a group of separate communities requiring specific kinds of help, Asian Americans are often shut out of affirmative-action programs. Asian Americans say the label is used to taunt blacks and Hispanics, that it implies, "The Asians have made it, so why can't you?" Says Reed Ueda, a Japanese-American professor of history at Tufts University in Massachusetts: "It's a way of manipulating other minorities. It tends to isolate Asians and brings resentment." Unfortunately, the typical response from Asian Americans...