Word: hot-button
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...With school prayer a hot-button conservative issue, the Supreme Court is under growing pressure to clarify the boundaries of constitutional permissibility of high school piety. Choosing the football game's halftime show as the place to make its ruling may, however, be a mixed blessing to prayer advocates. After all, the Appeals Court in its ruling included something of a religious critique of the idea of halftime prayer when it noted that a football game was "hardly the sober type of... event that can be appropriately solemnized with prayer." But the Supreme Court is unlikely to try and adjudicate...
...UPSHOT] Huge amounts of soft money have poured into the party committees, and lobbyists are furiously trying to frame the issue their way. Stands to be one of the hot-button issues...
...sicker of spending almost every day of them fund-raising for the next election. The Republican Senate has been squashing this bill for years, and the smart money says 1999 will be no different. Except that McCain will go hoarse trying to make this issue the national hot-button that he?s always dreamed it would be. "I am not in the business of identifying individuals or attacking individuals," he said Thursday, struggling to keep the debate on some sort of high ground. "I am attacking a system. I am attacking a system that has to be fixed." Added partner...
...ROTC debate typified an emerging trend in campus politics. When it comes to hot-button campus issues, students have, by and large, left the council for issue-specific special-interest groups. And these new groups--the Progressive Student Labor Movement, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence, etc.--seem to have more traction with the administration, demonstrated by their recently won concessions. When Dean Lewis ignores the (supposed) interests of the entire student body to heed the concerns of a small and interested faction thereof, it is evident that student government is no longer the best avenue for influencing the administration...
...couple of the fall's better premieres. True, high school programs are still often mired in soap-opera plots--see the randy Manchester, whose early glimpses just miss so-bad-it's-good status--but they are also attracting writers and producers seeking to make statements and referencing hot-button issues and carrying credits like The Larry Sanders Show, The X-Files and My So-Called Life on their resumes...