Several agency executives agree that compensation is no longer the inflammatory issue it was a year ago.

Last week, the political process showed its disturbing tendency to focus on inflammatory but marginal issues.

But this was a paid advertisement presenting one side of an inflammatory issue.

Rather, they are perfect case studies in how politicians fabricate, then profit from, an inflammatory issue.

Indeed, the most inflammatory issue in the debate is the phone companies' role in cable service.

In Germany as in other western European countries, immigration has become an inflammatory public issue.

There is no more inflammatory issue in the sport than men coaching women.

Theatrical nudity soon ceased to be an inflammatory issue.

The rift between North and South had appeared; slavery was an inflammatory issue.

This is only one example of such inflammatory issues going on at the school.