If the campaign is accepted, city officials say, it could spur more open treatment of other charged issues, such as teen-age pregnancy and drug abuse.

When salaries like mine and others are in the headlines, this is a more charged issue.

This was a charged issue, she could tell; nobody felt comfortable expressing opinions.

The magnitude of the cash flows is a charged political issue in Mexico.

But here, as elsewhere in Germany, history remains a charged issue.

"It was certainly obvious that this was a charged issue," she said.

The dispute has become a charged issue among black intellectuals.

"It's a very charged issue and we expect to get a lot of input," he said.

But some people closer to home, where blood sports is a charged issue, aren't.

And it takes on one of the most charged issues in contemporary life: gender or sexual identity.