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The debate's exchanges at Drake University were a bit sharper and pricklier than in this year's previous Republican debates.

GOP hopefuls set selves apart from Bush in Iowa clash 2007

Over Fate of Georgia, Provinces With Russian forces appearing to hunker down in Georgia, U.S. and European officials now face a pricklier challenge: Moscow's insistence that it has the right to help break up the country.

U.S.-Russia Relations Turn Cold 2008

Metzenbaum, a pricklier personality in a pricklier time, is unlikely to enjoy a similar honor.

Fighting At The Finish 2008

On the pricklier side, some in Germany suspect that, in an effort to highlight his recent push for a refocusing of U.S. energies away from Iraq and onto Afghanistan, he may call for increased German support there.

Stefan Sirucek: Great Expectations 2008

But maybe the press corps is pricklier than I thought -- check out this second ever "Obama Pool Report," filed by The Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet:

Re: Brrrrrrrrrack Obama - Swampland - TIME.com 2007

The thorns get even pricklier as the Senate bipartisan proposal comes at a time when many good American jobs are already being outsourced as low-pay, contract-work spread across the globe.

Border Guards Are Not the Answer Because Immigrants Are Not the Enemy 2006

The fact that rights thickets already exist is no reason to make them thicker and pricklier.

Works in progress: Laura Heymann Rebecca Tushnet 2006

Rhavas had a prickly sense of honor and an even pricklier sense of duty.

Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005

"I thought the ground felt even pricklier than usual," he commented.

The Lee Shore Rose Macaulay 1919

And unlike most pressing Sino-U.S. issues-which seem to get ever pricklier as ties between the two economic giants grow more complex-the issue of pandas is pretty simple.

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