71.   It prompted a longer-than-usual debate by the voters.

72.   Justices tend to defend long-standing legal precedents and stick to a literal reading of the law rather than stir public debate by reinterpreting laws or overturning past rulings.

73.   Last summer, the Kansas Board of Education sparked a national debate by passing new testing standards that minimized the importance of evolution.

74.   Last year, an aging French general relaunched debate by publishing a book coldly detailing the atrocities committed by the French during the war.

75.   Meanwhile, police use a new repressive security law to force a literary cafe to cancel political debates by authors and intellectuals.

76.   Mexico was recertified following a painful public debate by American lawmakers.

77.   Probing biography of Danish leader stirs privacy debate By JAN.

78.   Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Calif., called in a debate by speaker phone last Thursday against Democratic state Assemblywoman Susan Davis.

79.   Still under debate by the two sides is how friendly the characters should be.

80.   Somebody is adding his two bits to the Confederate flag debate by stamping the banner onto the back of some recently minted South Carolina quarters.