One sticky point for the negotiations between the two airlines has been the deal's potential tax liability, according to the person familiar with the talks.

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The notion that free code should beget more free code is central to the open-source movement, but it's a sticky point to companies, like Cisco Systems, that make a living off of intellectual property.

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That last bit could be a sticky point.

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They calculated the force in question from the contact area of the toe, and found that toe pads were still sticky two minutes after the sliding had stopped, long after the point when, according to their estimate of its viscosity, all the mucus would have drained away.

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From next January, registering a new firm should be a question of days, not weeks, with just one point of contact with the bureaucracy, rather than the current parade through dozens of sticky-fingered offices.

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