Word: hot-button
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King says he never favored rent control, which was a hot-button issue in Cambridge until a statewide resolution in 1994 ended the city’s system which limited the rent landlords could charge...
Condit takes a hands-off position on Cambridge’s other hot-button issues: zoning, affordable housing and its relations with its universities...
...Western country." But Australia refused permission to land and sent troops aboard to ensure that it did not. The stalemate triggered international bickering, with Australia, Indonesia and Norway all refusing to take responsibility for the passengers. It also sparked fierce debate in Australia, where illegal immigration has been a hot-button topic during this election year. Most Australians supported Prime Minister John Howard's hardline tack, which was criticized by churches and human-rights groups...
...risk the harrowing passage if there were decent jobs to be had at home. Thus Fox's plan for immigration reform, coupled with economic reform to grow the Mexican economy. But President Bush also has plenty of reason to be cautious, since curbing immigration has long been a hot-button issue for his party's conservative base. And the U.S. economic downturn will increase the pressure that forced the White House to backpedal on the wide-ranging amnesty it floated at the beginning of summer. Today, the Bush administration is talking not of an amnesty, but of a "guest worker...
...wants to bring her MTV audience over, though, and their moms with them. Lewis, says her producer Mary Duffy, intends to be an intergenerational "conduit of information" about hot-button topics like school violence, depression and teen sex--a topic Lewis raised at MTV, in true confessional-host mode, by talking about a temporary vow of celibacy she took. "So many young girls stopped me in the street then and told me they made different choices [about having sex]," she recalls...