gut issue

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gut issue - an issue that elicits strong emotional reactions

issue - an important question that is in dispute and must be settled; "the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone"; "politicians never discuss the real issues"

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This is a personal gut issue, so expect party affiliation or political relationship to be set aside when they vote on the proposed measure.

Hard sell on easing bank secrecy

Rice is our staple food and is therefore a gut issue felt by the rich who can buy high quality commercial rice and the poor, who line up to buy a few kilos of cheap NFA rice.

Editorial: Rice sufficiency

That's right -- 60% of Brits have never spoken to anyone about their bowel movements and 14% have kept a gut issue secret from a friend or loved one.

Five myths about poo debunked - from the colour, the smell and how often you go; Because Brits never talk about privy problems, there are many myths about the rights and wrongs of number twos

That's right - 60% of Brits have never spoken to anyone about their bowel movements and 14% have kept a gut issue secret from a friend or loved one.

Five poo myths POO-POOED! Because Brits never talk about privy problems, there are many myths about the rights and wrongs of number twos

If you've got a "gut issue," there's some supplement or diet out there just itching to help.

Gut check

I mentioned the gut issue to our waitress, who seemed concerned, but we didn't hear of it again.

Friday night is fish night INTYNEMOUTH; The North East's most candid food critic - now writing every Saturday in The Journal

Leon Panetta, a former White House chief of staff and strong Gore supporter, told the press that the environment is "a gut issue" for the vice president, who shouldn't "tiptoe around these issues.

Weather 'tis nobler in the mind: Al Gore lost in 2000 by going soft on the environment. He can win in 2004 by getting tough

The unremarked gut issue today is that over the past decade there was a landslide transfer of wealth from public shareholders to corporate managers.

Enron ain't the problem. (Compensation Committee)

Having tired of Enron, talk show hosts have hit on a new gut issue: The efficacy of frowns and wrinkles.

New wrinkle on the old power game: as Botox knocks years off the faces of the media elite, will the Van Susteren visage replace the Murrow furrow as Hollywood's game face? (Inside Moves)

Indeed, the death penalty is no longer a gut issue, or even a necessary stand, for those, like Schumer, who are associated with the Democratic Party's liberal wing.

Hate Versus Death

This is a deep, gut issue, like abortion, and it is approaching quickly.

Biology: understanding culture, technology, and politics in 'Biological Century.'

Terry Eastland, spokesman for the Department of Justice, said the decision "leaves for another case the bottom-line gut issue of when race may be taken into account in employment." During the arguments before the Court, Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds had expressed the Reagan Administration's position that affirmative action plans may not use quotas or goals and that the Government should intervene only on behalf of individuals who can prove that they are victims of specific acts of discrimination, rather than on behalf of groups or classes of people seeking redress of alleged broad patterns of discrimination.