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.
There were fears at the end of 2001, when Argentina was again in an economic pickle, that the army might put in its boot once more, but the current relative stability has eased such tensions.
Commercial bankers, once the poor relations in Russia's bubble economy, are now discreetly enjoying the pickle in which their investment banking colleagues have landed.
Others cite Boiler Room, about a college-age kid who gets involved in a crooked brokerage on Long Island and finds himself in an ethical pickle.
People in the middle of them were in a particular pickle.
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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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Contrast that with a different executive in a similar pickle.
At 15 he started, 48 hours a week chopping up fish in some poky hole, getting shocks from the finning machine, steeping his skinned, sore hands in brine or pickle-juice.
This puts income investors in a real pickle.
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Mr Pinochet is in his present pickle not because Chile has broken its promise to him but because the general made the mistake of swanning around the world on what turns out to have been the false assumption that the decision of Chile's polity binds the rest of the world's courts.
England were in a bit of a pickle at 18-1 off 3.3 overs, whereupon Luke Wright cut loose in impressive fashion.
All of which leaves Western oil giants in something of a pickle.
Kimchi is a vegetable pickle from South Korea and chow-chow is a vegetable pickle popular in Nova Scotia and the southern United States.
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