Word: flashpoint
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...port city. And the arrival of all these immigrants was basically a volcanic eruption, and the ashes changed the global climate. Irish people poured into the Five Points [section of Lower Manhattan], and they became a large part of this criminal underclass. They were just waiting for this flashpoint of civil riot to express their rights and loot the city...
...their jeep broke down near the Casbah. It'll be past midnight when Tibon visits the scene; right now he must coordinate the evacuation of the two men, who have leg wounds. But he can't disguise his annoyance that the jeep was alone at such an obviously dangerous flashpoint in the first place, and he issues firm orders to border police commanders not to send their men into Nablus without his knowledge. Tibon strides to an observation point and trains his binoculars on the ambush site. He's ordered retaliation on the area from which the Palestinian shots originated...
Incompatible with laws in Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere mandating employee representation on boards The issue risks becoming a new flashpoint in trade relations between the U.S. and the European Union, already strained by disputes over steel tariffs and tax breaks for American exporters. E.U. Commissioner Frits Bolkestein complained in a letter to sec chairman Harvey L. Pitt on Aug. 29 that "the implementation of some of the provisions of the Act might have undesirable extraterritorial consequences or they might create unnecessary difficulties for European companies." Among his concerns: a new U.S. body that will oversee auditing firms will regulate...
...context of recent developments, President Bush's musings on CEO responsibility are as understated as the expenses in WorldCom's financial statements, the flashpoint for new worries of widespread accounting abuse. WorldCom said that an internal review uncovered huge hidden expenses--mostly line charges that it pays to other telecom carriers--that were characterized as capital investments, a gimmick that boosted its profits...
Since Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 made his notorious comments last spring, grade inflation at Harvard has been a flashpoint of controversy on campus. More recently, articles in major newspapers such as the Boston Globe and The New York Times, inflammatory comments by a Tufts University dean and a report released by the College have brought the issue into the spotlight once again...