Mr. Gubenko, while hardly confirming such was the case, announced Mr. Gorbachev's initiative to deal with the long-simmering issue formally.

So when Compton's last year gleefully sought billions of dollars in royalties, a long-simmering issue boiled over.

When Mo and Stewart invited Morgan Maxwell Jr., a black freshman, to share their table in the cafeteria, it helped to calm some long-simmering racial issues surrounding segregation at the university.

Mrs. Karageorges said the straw vote should clarify positions on a long-simmering issue.

The question of whether the city is illegally or inappropriately discouraging food stamp applicants is a long-simmering political issue.

It also revived the long-simmering issue of political influence on higher education in Texas.

The uproar over "Fahrenheit 9/11" reignited the long-simmering issues.

But the long-simmering issue was largely settled this week, when the United States granted a narrower patent to the company, Ricetec of Alvin, Tex.

Because of this campaign, a long-simmering issue - the tax on suburban commuters who work in New York City - has suddenly become the most compelling topic in state politics.

Judge Denounces Cramped Seating As if the airlines didn't have enough to worry about, the long-simmering issue of deep-vein thrombosis keeps raising its head, with a growing threat of substantial liability.