11.   ----- The question of the mother-daughter relationship seems to touch a nerve.

12.   After decades of complaints that the industry neglected blacks, it has touched a nerve with authors and agents.

13.   Alexander angrily withdrew the amendment, but the move touched a nerve with conservative Republicans who joined him in opposing the entire education bill.

14.   All these ideas touched raw nerves here, and all were quickly dropped.

15.   But for all its apparent silliness, the Club of Rome did touch a nerve.

16.   But it was clear a nerve had been touched by the words of Gen. Barry McCaffrey, the White House drug czar.

17.   But the ads have touched a nerve.

18.   But they have touched a nerve within an industry that liked to cast itself as aloof from such mundane matters.

19.   But they touched a nerve.

20.   But the prospect of turning human embryos into spare parts factories touched a nerve in Congress, which several years ago banned federal funding for such research.