Front Burner

A slang term for an important issue that should be handled promptly.

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About Front Burner Brands Front Burner Brands is a restaurant management company headquartered in Tampa, Fla.

The Melting Pot Seeks New Owner for Newport News, Va., Restaurant

Jamison wants dance placed on the front burner, as important as sports and Broadway shows.

Living the dream: how Ailey went from revelation to institution

While compliance issues may not be front burner items right now, they become hot issues if a complaint is filed or an audit is requested.

Bright ideas--stay compliant

As significant as this progress is, CPAs, institutional investors and other large shareholders can play an important role keeping this issue on the front burner of the remaining 45% that do not have an independent chairman or lead director.

Another red flag

Please return Wal-Mart to your front burner, perhaps even as an emblem of our ails for the upcoming campaign.

Letters

In regard to the June cover story, thank you for keeping this topic of conversation on the front burner.

A work in progress. (Letters)

To keep the flow of visitors coming, the Chamber has moved two related issues to the front burner in 2003: a conference center and the airport.

The chicken and the egg: a new conference center and revitalized airport are related priorities

As such, "federal antitrust efforts have moved to the front burner.

Physicians in FTC's scope. (Policy & Practice)

Federal antitrust efforts have moved to the front burner," and cases involving pharmaceuticals now account for the majority of FTC health care antitrust cases, he said.

Physicians in FTC's scope. (Policy & Practice)

District 2 is a district where instructional issues are on our front burner.

Reflections: the effects of September 11 are still being felt by educators and students a year later. Here some of your colleagues share their feelings about the repercussions of this event

Those issues weren't on the front burner for most male politicians," says Donyta Wright, a northern Minnesota activist who hails Janezich for "being open to ideas other than the traditional male view.

A Minnesota Populist Tries to Crash the Millionaires' Club

It was the first time, however, that the religious issue was on the front burner, where prejudice was called by its name.