21.   One recent debate focused on the resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders.

22.   Regional debates have focused in recent months on how to do that.

23.   Since then, the legal debate has focused on the question of purpose.

24.   State Senator Roy M. Goodman, a Republican from Manhattan who opposes any form of deregulation, believes the debate will focus on outright vacancy decontrol.

25.   That debate should focus on ensuring that low-income, uninsured or underinsured residents will continue to get decent health care as they did at Boston City Hospital.

26.   The air pollution debate has focused primarily on chemicals that cause smog, acid rain and other problems.

27.   The debate then focused on the moral hazard of insuring the deposits of institutions involved in inordinately risky financial dealings.

28.   The debate also focuses attention on a rare northbound migration in modern North America.

29.   The debate should focus on garnering equal legal protection for gay and lesbian partnerships and not on the more contentious issue of nomenclature.

30.   The current debate on deflation focuses more attention on what the goal of monetary policy should be, Meyer said.