1.   The case touches upon Decades of tradition in Dubuque, and dramatic changes affecting health care nationwide.

2.   A drug abuse case has touched off a similar debate in South Carolina.

3.   But while most disputes revolve around efforts to recover paintings confiscated from wealthy Jews by the Nazis, the Wildenstein case touches on far more sensitive questions.

4.   The case quickly touched off a bitter dispute between Giuliani and the Bronx district attorney, Robert Johnson.

5.   The case has touched off a debate among psychologists and adoption officials about a disorder that is increasingly being diagnosed as the number of foreign adoptions rise.

6.   The case has touched off a debate among theologians and scholars at Notre Dame.

7.   The case has touched off a diplomatic dispute between Moscow and Washington.

8.   The case touched off a national debate about the propriety of clubby legal ethics that many thought kept fees artificially high.

9.   The civil cases touched virtually every national news organization, including lesser newspapers favorable to the government, but they were not severely penalized.

10.   The Simpson case clearly touches a deeper American nerve.