But the celebratory mood was muted by the knowledge that Iraqi leaders had put off for later many of the most intractable issues.

Unlike such truly intractable issues as, say, poverty, the current air transport problems would seem not beyond the capacity of political Washington to solve.

I have never been involved in a negotiation with so many complex and seemingly intractable issues at stake.

Another point of contention today concerned the missing in Bosnia, an enormous and intractable issue.

Then there is the seemingly intractable issue of how a Jewish museum should be established.

But legal scholars say the most intractable issue involves unusual instructions that were given to Texas juries from 1989 to 1991.

Kennedy takes us beyond the culture wars and reveals, through a series of well-chosen case studies, how intractable many current issues are.

Officials seemed hopeful that they might soon have a definitive answer on a surprisingly intractable issue.

If so, those sources said, several options are open, including asking Clinton Administration officials to help resolve the most intractable issues.

At the moment this intractable, emotional moral issue is gliding silently below the surface of the Presidential campaign.