In November 2012, the lightning rod on Highton's house took a direct hit.
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"He's not the lightning rod they're looking for, " Harris said.
Piracy is the lightning rod of the record business.
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Then on Saturday night, Marcus Agius took a personal decision to become the lightning rod for the criticism, to protect Barclays and Mr Diamond, so he decided to resign - which he told colleagues about on Sunday morning and was confirmed yesterday.
Last year, the Patz case became a lightning rod in the divisive race for district attorney.
For the Mahathir-Soros debate has become a lightning rod for the pros and cons of openness to the world and the constraints it imposes on individual nations.
But with the prime minister now a possible lightning rod for dissatisfaction over the tainted products, Mr Ma may have to think again.
As the head of the company, Hayward became a lightning rod for public and political anger after the drill rig operated by BP exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April.
The case also had the potential to turn the Court into a lightning rod of controversy and damage its reputation.
The vote by a group that claims to embody the very definition of American masculinity and honor became a lightning rod for debate about the nature and pace of change on gay rights.
The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay became a lightning rod for critics who charged that the Bush administration had used torture on terror detainees.
Generally, those that have actually led to lengthy work stoppages share the common trait of a single lightning rod issue, like football players trying to win free agency in the 1980s or baseball owners trying to institute a salary cap in the 1990s.
The Conga project has become a lightning rod for larger debates about whether mining can benefit local communities without damaging the environment and whether or not national economic interests should trump local opposition to mining activities.
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Which is why the 2011 bonus for Stephen Hester, RBS's chief executive, is such a lightning rod for discontent in the UK, even though he was actually running a commercial property company, British Land, when the bankers' risk-taking party was at its frenzied peak (and see my post of last night for more on this).
Since then, the company has become a lightning rod for anger over Wall Street's profligacy and seeming arrogance.
The extreme nationalist, rich, Liberal Democrats, led by Russia's de facto court jester, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who got 6%, act more as a lightning rod for the authorities than a serious political force.
But it also seeks to extend tightened government cybersecurity standards beyond all government agencies, government contractors and software vendors selling to those groups, to include the private sector's so-called "critical infrastructure" companies--those typically deemed crucial for national security (see "The Senate's Cyber Lightning Rod").
The banking sector in particular has been a lightning rod for public criticism, after a number of major banks in the United States and Britain received billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded rescue packages at the height of the crisis.
The 37-year-old Rodriguez has been as much a lightning rod for back-page fodder and the subject of Major League Baseball investigations as he has been a force on the field since joining the Yankees in 2004.
The move comes on the heels of European-wide steps last Thursday to address top management pay, which has been a lightning rod for public anger across the world since the financial crisis.
"Bilingual education connects to a lot of lightning rod issues in the national discourse, " Linquanti said.
Inside America and out, he was a lightning rod but also the acknowledged fix-it man at a time of enormous creative destruction.
In the past year AHRQ became a lightning rod when one of its task forces on prevention recommended that women get fewer mammograms.
After Tyreek Duren's two foul shots tied it 74-all at the 1:07 mark, Mississippi star and team lightning rod Marshall Henderson missed an off-balance bank shot that would have given the Rebels the lead.
But none of this means that the court will cease to be a lightning rod.
The government inaction is all the more notable because the family-planning bureaucracy is a lightning rod for public resentment.
Fees paid to placement agents have become a lightning rod recently, following the indictment of two such middlemen by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
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The proposed transfers have become a political lightning rod in Congress, with some Republicans accusing President Barack Obama of trying to cut a deal with terrorists.
The labor board has been a partisan lightning rod during Obama's presidency, with Republican lawmakers and business groups furious over decisions and rules they say are aimed at helping labor unions win more members.
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