21.   No one in Congress or on the presidential campaign trail seems eager to take a firm position on such a charged issue.

22.   Outside special interest groups have often pressured centrist denominations on highly charged political issues.

23.   Race continues to be a highly charged issue in this country, a place with even segregated nightclubs.

24.   Politically charged issues like school choice and vouchers are creating delicate new alliances.

25.   The Bosnian mission should not be freighted with the highly charged issue of NATO expansion.

26.   The attacks have thrown new questions into the planning, and created an atmosphere in which what to sell and how to sell it have become highly charged issues.

27.   The changes are a politically charged issue outside New York City, in suburban and upstate districts where property owners pay taxes directly to school districts.

28.   The Chilean Supreme Court managed a neat balancing act in the charged issue of whether to prosecute Gen. Augusto Pinochet on kidnapping and murder charges.

29.   THE COLOUR OF SUSPICION The way cops perceive blacks - and how those perceptions shape and misshape crime fighting - is now the most charged racial issue in America.

30.   The delegates spent part of Tuesday morning debating another emotionally charged issue, gun control.