Word: fodder
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Since its institution in 1981, the Salient has certainly done a lot of that. During the editorship of Gladden J. Pappin ’04, gay rights advocacy provided constant fodder for the magazine’s criticisms. In a Dec. 2002 letter to the editor, Pappin praised a 1920 secret court that disciplined homosexual students. The Harvard administrators’ actions had not been public until an article in Fifteen Minutes reported on them that December...
...rights and workers' rights. "It's sad that [Bush] felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America," Schumer said. "The President seems to want to hunker down in his bunker." Alito is an ardent conservative who will be hard to caricature, but will provide plenty of fodder for an ideological showdown. As a sign of the potential battle ahead, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said he wants to ask Alito about abortion. The new justice could become the tie-breaking vote on abortion restrictions...
...referendum been proposed in Massachusetts that seeks to dissolve the rights of a minority group that had been previously guaranteed. In fact, the Massachusetts state constitution explicitly prohibits referenda concerning religious organizations for precisely this reason: the correct belief that the rights of minorities should not be fodder for public consumption and political hackery, but for well-reasoned debate in a controlled setting...
...salutes and state dinners. Washington hesitated, granting the salute but not the dinner. This was understandably disappointing, as Hu wanted to show that America acknowledges China as an important power, which would have granted him more prestige among his party leadership. Procedural rigmarole, after all, is excellent political fodder. It also spoiled the mood...
...trucks and aid convoys make roads too dangerous to travel, and the scared and hungry arrive at swollen relief camps daily. Even then, their safety is not ensured. At Kalma, Darfur's largest camp, refugees complain of government harassment, and women who venture beyond in search of firewood and fodder are often raped...