Word: litmus
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...agree with the majority that rent control is the litmus test issue for progressive (or less euphemistically, liberal) candidates in Cambridge races...
Some observers even predict that the issue--which prompted a full week of campus protests in April--could be a litmus test in the upcoming council elections...
Some observers even predict that the issue--which prompted a full week of campus protests in April--could be a litmus test in the upcoming council elections...
Some observers even predict that the issue--which prompted a full week of campus protests in April--could be a litmus test in the upcoming council elections...
...powerful Middle East states. In Iran, they are part of a domestic power struggle between Rafsanjani and his hard-line Interior Minister, Ali Akbar Mohtashami, who served as paymaster to Hizballah in the early 1980s. Experts feel that Mohtashami's - ability to sustain the hostage holding will be a litmus test of his power under the newly elected President. Syria, which maintains about 25,000 troops in Lebanon, could improve its relations with the West by rescuing the hostages, but it wields little influence over the Shi'ites who hold them. Still, the U.S. believes Syria could use its intelligence...