1.   THE three main parties are to debate their policies on nursery education at a public meeting in Darlington.

2.   Congress is debating telecommunications policy this month.

3.   During an assembly two weeks ago at Vis Valley, students debated policies ranging from the virtues of chewing gum in class to the importance of dignity and respect.

4.   Economic policy is usually debated at the lofty plane of the macroeconomy, but it is often carried out at a nuts-and-bolts level.

5.   If there is anything as inevitable as death and taxes, it is the fact that the presidential candidates will be debating tax policy.

6.   In debating farm policy, however, the splits are rarely along party lines.

7.   Partisans can debate policy by day and break bread by might.

8.   Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., the majority leader, said the Senate would debate administration policy in Kosovo early next week.

9.   Soon after, he allowed the election of a Parliament with considerable leeway to debate government policies, though the monarch retained ultimate power.

10.   The bishops began debating the policy Thursday afternoon behind closed doors, and worked into the night.