Mr Simon, already under fire for being a cultural conservative, is now in a pickle.
Elsewhere, Walt Disney (nyse: DIS - news - people ) is in a pickle.
House GOP leaders said immediately they would hold a vote on Friday, which left House Democrats in a pickle.
As for that other fight, against Saddam, Guinea is in a pickle, anxious to offend neither France nor America.
Still, if he fails to realize his vision of Japan, Hashimoto-san may find himself in a pickle after all.
With its method of payment for the children's health care initiative, Congress has put the tobacco industry in a pickle.
Only a year ago, Mr Bush was in a pickle, after the defection of Senator Jim Jeffords handed the upper chamber to the Democrats.
The world's economies are in a pickle, with developed nations ailing from too much debt and emerging markets at risk for too much inflation.
In the cities of the rich world no woman is expected to wear a garment until it is worn out. (Men, unaccountably, tend to hold on to their clothes for years, but the industry is working on the problem.) The clothes industry would be in a pickle without a constant supply of clients dissatisfied with the contents of their wardrobes.
People in the middle of them were in a particular pickle.
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Contrast that with a different executive in a similar pickle.
This puts income investors in a real pickle.
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All of which leaves Western oil giants in something of a pickle.
England were in a bit of a pickle at 18-1 off 3.3 overs, whereupon Luke Wright cut loose in impressive fashion.
Kimchi is a vegetable pickle from South Korea and chow-chow is a vegetable pickle popular in Nova Scotia and the southern United States.
He says no company has paid him for any of this, which of course puts him in a bit of a pickle about where to take it.
The board of American International Group has certainly found itself in a bit of a pickle, as it mulls whether to join a lawsuit that says the U.S. government went too far by demanding exacting terms when it rescued the company in 2008.
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Still, for anyone needing a reminder of how America got into its present pickle in the region, this is a brisk, enjoyable way to get it.
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He says that in 18th-century America, there was even a proposal to pickle such prominent people as Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and other founding fathers.
Jobs and Gates, while showing in stark detail the pickle of modern-day management: Can a chief executive be successful, drive innovation and create elegant products?
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