"Organizations that work on controversial issues or that are affiliated with political opposition have more trouble with the authorities,".
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Returning to a couple of thecontroversialissues in the spending review, that levy on larger retailers (the big supermarkets) selling both alcohol and tobacco may bring criticism from business, but it may have two side-effects the government may welcome.
Clearly, the brutal financial damage that swept the financial community due to unregulated, little-understood derivative contracts like credit default swaps is one of the most controversialissues of the financial meltdown.
The convention was supposed to thrash out all the most controversialissues so that the ministerial summit could reach a final agreement quickly and without punch-ups.