1.   Over the last few weeks, the debate has divided families and estranged neighbors, leaving as many as one in seven concealing how they planned to vote.

2.   The debate has divided the panel of independent experts that the state assembled soon after the fire.

3.   The debate does not divide neatly among rich and poor.

4.   The dispute says much about the perils of trying to expand a Western history curriculum in an era when debates about multiculturalism divide campuses.

5.   The climate debate has sharply divided President Clinton from the Republican-controlled Congress.

6.   The debate divides scholars into two camps.

7.   The deflation-inflation debate divides executives even within Wall Street firms.

8.   The salmon debate has once again divided Alaska from Oregon and Washington, whose leaders are now accusing one another of misrepresenting what they agreed to four months ago.

9.   While the debate has divided environmentalists, it has brought together paper company owners and mill workers, who are now fighting for the Compact referendum.

10.   The debate even divided families.