11.   The battle over the merger has been marked by acrimonious debate and a multimillion-dollar campaign.

12.   The malpractice changes rated scant mention during more than five hours of acrimonious House debate on the Medicare overhaul last week.

13.   The most acrimonious debate tonight centered on a provision that would allow corporations with overfunded pension plans to use some of that money for business expenses.

14.   The placement of advertising on what some regard as the purest area of the Internet - the educational domain - has spurred an acrimonious debate.

15.   The rules were intended to help end what has become an acrimonious debate on patenting genes, a multimillion-dollar business for many companies.

16.   They say that voters will forget the acrimonious debate by November, when Whitman faces re-election.

17.   Two years ago, after acrimonious debate, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the American Film Institute rejected proposals to honor Kazan with life achievement awards.

18.   What the country needs is not an acrimonious debate over timber sales but a solid strategy for preventing fires.

19.   A few years ago, Australians had an acrimonious debate about whether to dump the queen and eventually voted not to.

20.   A U.N. Security Council extension of a humanitarian program in Iraq, secured after acrimonious debate, drew criticism Friday by some Iraqis who receive food from the program.