11.   It is when the debate shifts from costs to coverage that Bradley has a chance to score with voters.

12.   Once Lowry returns from his four-day trip, debate likely will shift to the proposed hookup between Seattle and Haiphong.

13.   So the debate is already shifting away from the pharmaceutical industry, and toward the question of what wealthy nations can do.

14.   Slowly, like ketchup creeping from a bottle, the genetic engineering debate is shifting to America.

15.   Suddenly, the debate has shifted from how rapidly the economy can expand without raising the inflation rate to whether a slowing economy will keel over into recession.

16.   The debate has now shifted to corporal punishment in the home, with the Labor government trying to rewrite the law to set out exactly what constitutes acceptable hitting.

17.   The debate now shifts to how best to cut the flow of mercury from coal to power-plant smoke and on into the environment.

18.   The debate shifted along with the political tides during weeks of lobbying this summer and fall.

19.   The debate will now shift to the Senate, which is not expected to take up the issue until September.

20.   The debate has shifted from which programs to cut to which programs to finance and which taxes to cut.