31.   Moynihan, a New York Democrat, says he is dismayed by the direction the welfare debate has taken in the last year.

32.   Not all the debate took place on the air.

33.   Now the familiar budget debates can take place in a context of at least some extra money becoming available.

34.   Pataki said he wanted to debate and believed that debates would take place.

35.   Originally, Republicans had promised a campaign finance debate would take place in late May.

36.   Racial debates often take place in profound ignorance of history.

37.   Some Republicans said the debate would take place in February.

38.   Still, a profound debate is clearly taking place over whether the states are simply being offered the fiscal disasters that Congress has stitched into the federal budget.

39.   That debate has taken on greater significance since the Clinton administration began preparing for national standards and tests earlier this year.

40.   That such a debate is taking place reflects the surprising endurance of what seems an anachronism.