Word: flashpoint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wars start without a flashpoint...
...Flashpoint in Bosnia...
...This flashpoint for many of the proposals could be a panel discussion of relations between Black students and the University police scheduled for May 2 at the Kennedy School of Government...
...Fernald State School in Waltham has been the early flashpoint. The late Harvard faculty member Dr. Clemens E. Benda fed children milk with radioactive tracers with their breakfast cereal as part of a nutrition study in the 1950s...
...diatribe, they might well have uttered joyful yelps -- the show-biz equivalent of "The Eagle has landed!" Even if their feelings were bruised, the movie's makers had reason to cheer. Now Philadelphia was not just a worthy film and a likely moneymaker; thanks to Kramer, it was a flashpoint for argument. As Demme says, with a soft laugh, "Any kind of debate about a movie is always stimulating to public interest in the film." Translation: controversy sells...