This issue ignited a privacy-rights maelstrom, but ended anti-climatically for Toysmart; in January, Buena Vista Internet Group, a Disney subsidiary and 60% majority shareholder of Toysmart, agreed to compensate the company's creditors $50,000 for the privilege of destroying the database.
The FCC's solution to the issue ignited opposition.
The issue ignited in the VC world about a week ago, when more than two dozen women in tech came forward in a New York Times article about the harassment they've experienced in the startup world, many as entrepreneurs trying to get funding.
The unification issue ignited the discussion but as it went along, it became more and more apparent that there were many other concerns among the development partners.
But the conflict in South Carolina revived the issue, igniting a new debate over the state's slave-era history.
Each time the issue ignites a media furore, and Muslim women who wear the veil are exposed to more hostility in a climate where those in niqab and hijab are already under threat: 60% of the victims of anti-Muslim attacks are women.
Some activist investors, meanwhile, are trying to coax Japanese companies into creating more value for shareholders, rekindling an issue that ignited contentious battles between foreign investors and Japanese management in the mid-2000s.
Wilmore teased an upcoming episode that will deal with spanking your children, an issue that ignited a national debate last month when Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was charged with child abuse for hitting his young son with a tree branch.
The objections set the stage for a clash between the White House and Gov. Mitch Daniels, a Republican, over an issue that ignites passions in both parties.
The extent to which the IOC is able to hold that line, the response of Russian police and security forces to any protests from campaign groups and the IOC's response to athletes that speak out on the matter or display solidarity with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by wearing rainbow colours will determine whether it becomes an issue that ignites during the Games themselves.
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