Word: hot-button
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...York Fed even went so far as to warn Treasury staffers that the bonuses were a hot-button issue. In the past, the memo says, the "retention," or bonus, issue has drawn the attention of both Capitol Hill staffers and the media. The New York Federal Reserve forwarded further details of the plan to Treasury on March 5 and even more specifics in a March 9 memo, which Treasury officials had previously said was their first detailed warning of the bonus trouble...
...Picoult would be a gold medalist. At 42, Picoult has published 16 books and has become one of the world's best-selling novelists. Often described as a writer who straddles the line between literary and commercial fiction, she is known for her artful family dramas that play on hot-button, ripped-from-the-headlines themes, such as spousal abuse and euthanasia. Her latest novel, Handle With Care, centers on the family of Willow O'Keefe, a smart, beautiful little girl with brittle bone disease. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Picoult (pronounced PEA-co) at her home...
...that any group—especially the United States military—does with regard to its prisoners will make waves for global security policy and conflict prevention strategies. For that reason, post-Guantánamo detainment must be approached in a much smoother and cautious fashion than similar hot-button issues have been in the past...
...split was first visible in November, just days after the presidential election, at the annual Republican governors conference Crist hosted in Miami. The centrists urged the party to obsess less about demonizing government and pressing hot-button social issues like gay marriage; the right wing warned that the party would all but vanish if it tried to be Dem Lite. But now the philosophical disputes are playing out in a high-stakes game of poker, with each side betting it will come out looking smarter when the stimulus' results are discernible. Should California and Florida, two of the states hardest...
...think that people who have the opportunity to help their country and the world need to, at times, do that,” Cutler said of his leave. Cutler was one of the chief architects of President Barack Obama’s health care plan—a hot-button issue during the presidential campaign—and said he will continue to work on health care policy in D.C. Cutler first came to Harvard in 1991 as an assistant professor, received tenure in 1997, and recently finished a 5-year stint overseeing the Faculty’s social science...