11.   Departing Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole has offered Harkin three hours of floor time to debate the matter.

12.   Increasingly, these matters are being debated in court.

13.   New York lawmakers are likely to debate the matter this year.

14.   On the left, consumer gadfly Ralph Nader has challenged Al Gore to publicly debate the matter, but the vice president apparently has demurred.

15.   That Tchaikovsky considered von Meck an intellectual equal is attested to by the vigor with which he debated artistic matters with her.

16.   The British Parliament even debated the matter on Monday, with some members saying the American would receive preferable handling.

17.   The commission debated the matter for about six and a half hours today.

18.   The matter was debated in desultory fashion for a while until Don turned to Phoebe and spoke in a monotone.

19.   The rocky pass where Wotan, Bruennhilde and Fricka debate matters of godly policy and where Siegmund and Hunding battle to the death, is monumentally craggy.

20.   Under rules agreed to by both sides, the Senate will debate the matter for two weeks.