Sharing the "social burden", as it is known, was a contentious issue in the election.
Government support for developing new passenger aircraft first emerged as a contentious issue in 1988.
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Bad weather, and how to deal with it, is always a contentious issue when there is everything at stake.
This is clearly a contentious issue in the tech world, and one that has many people pleading for patent reform.
In that same period, France -- where labor costs are a contentious issue -- has seen its costs increase by 4.3%.
But biometric identity is a contentious issue all over the world, and the unique number has also raised a number of thorny questions.
And the fact that the language hasn't been a contentious issue in this election, I think is a very important step along that road.
For example, Mr. Sollohub hopes NJIT can contribute to the debate about the best ways to build stronger boardwalks, which has become a contentious issue.
Athlete payment has become a contentious issue at the London Olympics.
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However, slow patient outreach has also been a contentious issue.
Things like setting up a meeting with your boss to discuss promotion opportunities, addressing a contentious issue with a colleague or beginning the process of changing our career path altogether.
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How to pay for health care reform is a contentious issue for both parties, and moderates aren't likely to vote for anything that threatens to push the U.S. economy further into the red.
"While you can't prove influence in specific cases, it's hard to imagine a week spent listening on one side of a contentious issue won't have some impact, " said Doug Kendall, CCR's executive director.
Yet they could not reach a deal on the status of Abyei, a disputed region claimed by both countries, which has been a contentious issue since the South declared independence on July 9 of last year.
U.N. reform was a contentious issue in the yearly budgeting process prior to the enactment of Helms-Biden, with Republicans regularly slowing down appropriations for a number of international efforts, and refusing to sign off on dues payments until the U.N agreed to reforms.
"This is a contentious issue and if we are going to deliver a lasting solution for the UK, we need to move forward on an agreed evidence base and, if possible, a high degree of political consensus, " said the prime minister's official spokesman.
Obviously this has been a hugely contentious issue in our country for a very long time.
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Verification is also a hugely contentious issue at international negotiations on a global climate treaty.
Mr Bush's call for duties on a wide range of imported steel products in March remains a highly contentious issue among members of the European Union and the basis for a possible trade war.
This is a highly contentious issue, often argued with more passion than proof - perhaps due to a sense of solidarity between two sets of fiercely independent mountain peoples.
If you think you can even get to the truth of a complex, contentious issue with a couple of phone calls, you are kidding yourself and your readers.
It has become a contentious social issue ahead of next year's presidential and congressional elections.
And that is essentially what makes this such a fiercely contentious issue: the rights of the child versus the rights of religion.
It became a contentious political issue about 20 years ago.
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They had been up the night before, I should say, passing a package of spending cuts, cutting programs such as student loans and Medicaid and food stamps, and that was a highly contentious issue that took much arm-twisting and went till 2, 3 in the morning.
Because intergenerational income distribution became a contentious public-policy issue with the establishment of public-pension systems.
Although BAE and EADS have presented the tie-up as a merger, one contentious issue is that EADS shareholders would end up with 60% of the new group, and BAE shareholders the rest.
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