Indeed, the industry as a whole has been wary of pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the technology, and the issue has become heavily politicized.

The science of forest damages was in the 1980s heavily politicized, and used as support for a specific preconceived "good" policy of environmental protection.

Stadium referendums have become heavily politicized and divisive elections.

Army Discontent Another official described the Philippine military as so heavily politicized as to be almost feudal in its loyalties.

Heavily politicized issues are often called "hot-button issues" because almost any position taken is sure to please one group of people and offend another.

But the agency, which combines both domestic and foreign intelligence services, became heavily politicized during the recent Government headed by the former Communists, Mr. Czempinski and Western diplomats said.

The Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, a schoolbook monitoring organization, disputed this finding, calling her claim heavily politicized and distorted.

Robert Royal writes that "estimates of pre-Columbian population figures have become heavily politicized with some scholars, who are particularly critical of Europe, often favoring wildly higher figures."

But as the tenant rent-guidelines process remains heavily politicized, owners find that increases granted are woefully inadequate.

The most dramatic clash between the F.B.I. and the heavily politicized Reno Department of Justice took place in February 1997.