1.   A similar item coming up is the attitude to Maastricht - the first major debate to be held by the new parliament.

2.   He gave the impression of a perky little high school speaking champ who had just won his first debate.

3.   The report sparked the first nationwide debate over whether low-calorie dieting was now outmoded.

4.   NORTH-EAST politicians clashed yesterday over the health service in the first major debate of the election campaign.

5.   And everyone remembers that Bush looked uncomfortable in the first debate, supremely confident in the second and laid-back to the point of drowsiness in the third.

6.   And he dutifully promoted the agenda of the religious right, which he had also ignored in the first debate.

7.   And Powell will wait to see if Dole stumbles in mid-November in the first national TV debate and in a pivotal GOP straw poll in Florida.

8.   And it should have been no surprise that he did so just before his first nationally televised debate with the other GOP contenders.

9.   And the Texas governor drew some criticism for skipping the first presidential debate in New Hampshire last Friday night.

10.   As for debating style, both candidates offered a sharp contrast to the first debate.