Word: hot-button
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...operations were two blocks and a few legal documents removed from Republican headquarters, it was just an extension of the party. Barbour was chairman of the forum; G.O.P. officials set its $4 million annual budget and coordinated fund raising. The forum circulated 600,000 questionnaires to identify the hot-button issues that were later assembled into the Contract with America...
...diversity has become a hot-button topic in higher education, Rudenstine and the other university presidents have discussed it at every AAU meeting for the past three years, Pings said...
Jacobs is a Medicare and Social Security booster, hot-button issues for the district's retirees. But he's Republican in a strongly Democratic district. Pledges to make Washington more efficient by downsizing and eliminating unneeded agencies may help. But Jacobs, an avid golfer, may need a hole-in-one to take this race from popular incumbent Peter Deutsch...
...district in the nation has more people over 65 than the 22nd, and Social Security and Medicare are hot-button issues here. Cooper stresses his commitment to both programs. To fight crime, another important topic for seniors, he wants more street-patrolling police and tougher gun-control laws...
...1860s, and the more remote northern areas, filled with Idaho's notorious militias and survivalists. At some level, resentment of government seems to unite the Idaho population, probably because the Feds own 65% of the state's land, including national forest and wilderness areas; and this year's hot-button issue is the huge Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and its store of "temporary" nuclear waste...