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The debate in the U. S. over rationing has enraged some in the UK and statements made by politicians such as Sarah Palin and Chuck Grassley resulted in a mass internet protest on web sites such as Twitter and Facebook under the banner title " WelovetheNHS " with positive stories of NHS experiences to counter the negative ones being expressed by these politicians and others and by certain media outlets such as Investors Business Daily and Fox News.
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After extensive debate, the U. S. Senate confirmed Thomas to the Supreme Court by a vote of 52 – 48 ; the narrowest margin since the 19th century.
" U. S. foreign policy and foreign aid have been the subject of much debate, praise and criticism both domestically and abroad.
During the 1993 policy debate, the National Defense Research Institute prepared a study for the Office of the Secretary of Defense published as Sexual Orientation and U. S. Military Personnel Policy: Options and Assessment.
The feasibility of the basic technologies analyzed in Nanosystems has been the subject of a formal scientific review by U. S. National Academy of Sciences, and has also been the focus of extensive debate on the internet and in the popular press.
The film sparked debate across the country, presenting mixed assessments on the role of the U. S. government and its response along with the controversy that normally arises when depicting recent, traumatic events.
Programming was even mentioned in the 2004 U. S. Presidential debate on the topic of offshore outsourcing.
The origin of the term " supervolcano " is linked to an early 20th century scientific debate about the geological history and features of the Three Sisters volcanic region of Oregon, U. S. A.
In 1979, a move towards independence was agreed upon in principle for 1982, but a change in government caused a policy reversal, and they instead approached the Canadian government to discuss a possible union, but at the time the Canadian Government was embroiled in a debate over free trade with the U. S., and little attention was paid to the suggestion.
** Vietnam War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam ( after some debate, they agree on a 2-phase bombing plan ).
The debate over legalization of marijuana in the U. S. goes on today.
** In San Francisco, during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter, U. S. President Gerald Ford stumbles when he declares that " there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe " ( there is at the time ).
** In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U. S. presidential election, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960.
* October 13 – In the second U. S. presidential debate, held by U. C. L. A., the Democratic party nominee, Michael Dukakis, is asked by journalist Bernard Shaw of CNN if he would support the death penalty if his wife, Kitty, were to be raped and murdered.
* January 15 – Portugal abandons the U. N. General Assembly due to the debate over Angola.
Ultimately, this debate led to a series of Congressionally-commissioned panels and government-funded reviews of the state of reading instruction in the U. S.
This debate parallels the discussion currently going on in the U. S., where many Republican leaders favor transforming the Social Security system, at least in part, to a self-directed investment plan.
There is debate about the extent to which EMTALA has led to cost-shifting and higher rates for insured or paying hospital patients, thereby contributing to the high overall rate of medical inflation in the U. S.
From 1871 to 1877 he was again a member of the United States Senate, in which he was prominent in debate and in committee work, and was chairman of the U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs during the Alabama Claims negotiations.
Fisk strongly condemned the September 11 attacks, describing them as a " hideous crime against humanity ," but he also denounced the Bush administration's response to the attacks, arguing that " a score of nations " were being identified and positioned as " haters of democracy " or " kernels of evil ," and urged a more honest debate on U. S. policy in the Middle East.
" Time stated that there was " no doubt in Sharp ’ s mind that the U. S. would now have to answer this attack ", and that there was no debate or confusion within the administration regarding the incident.
He was attempting to stop debate on purchasing attack submarines and Patriot anti-aircraft missiles for $ 16 billion dollars from the U. S. He was also wearing the Guy Fawkes mask from V for Vendetta.
The debate shifted from terrorist profiling to racial profiling of Mexicans, in which Ventura said he witnessed the Border Patrol deep within U. S. borders demanding proof of citizenship in an effort to combat illegal immigration.
Before the Communications Act of 1934 was enacted as law by the U. S. Congress, there was a debate over commercial versus non-commercial broadcasting: Senators Robert Wagner of New York and Henry Hatfield of West Virginia offered an amendment to the then proposed Communications Act.
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The debate needed no additional controversy and soon I could ask each individually what he expected from life, what his hopes were and what his fears.
Ideas need to be tested, and not merely by argument and debate.
Our presidential campaigns provide much debate and argument.
We must not forget, to be sure, that free discussion and debate have produced beneficial results.
Only recently, and perhaps because a television debate can so effectively dramatize President Kennedy's extraordinary mastery of detail, have the abilities on which the capacity for making distinctions depend begun to be clearly discernible at the level of politics.
Sure enough, mail began trickling in, delivered by a talkative, highly amused French postman who informed me there had been quite a debate at the post office as to whether that address would be recognized.
Despite Woodruff's continuing refusal to debate with Pike through the columns of his newspaper, Pike did not let up his attack for a moment.
On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition.
Two Anabaptists, Caroli and Benoit, are to challenge you and William to a debate before the Council.
`` If William agrees, we should insist on a public debate '', he said at length.
`` Monsieur Favre indicated that if I would co-operate, after you and William are banished, following the debate, I will be given a place of influence ''.
As a possible course of action, it also is the center of debate and is raising many questions.
In one debate he supported the freedom of judgment as opposed to dogma, in another he held that the practice of science was in fact an act of religious worship.
Roosevelt acted as moderator of the long debate on this issue.
Some who have written on Utopia have treated it as `` a learned diversion of a learned world '', `` a phantasy with which More amused himself '', `` a holiday work, a spontaneous overflow of intellectual high spirits, a revel of debate, paradox, comedy and invention ''.
There was no debate as the Senate passed the bill on to the House.
Dallas may get to hear a debate on horse race parimutuels soon between Reps. V. E. ( Red ) Berry and Joe Ratcliff.
The Kennedy administration moves haltingly toward a Geneva conference on Laos just as serious debate over its foreign policy erupts for the first time.
New Mexico's Clint Anderson offered a resolution to change the Senate's notorious Rule 22 to allow three-fifths of the Senators present and voting to cut off debate, instead of the current hard-to-get two-thirds.
Armed with the Nixon opinion, the Senate liberals rounded up their slim majority and prepared to choke off debate on the filibuster battle this week.
The debate led to a decision that Chicago needed neither a big name nor an experienced academic administrator, but rather, as Trustee Chairman Glen A. Lloyd put it, `` a top scholar in his own right '' -- a bright light to lure other top scholars to Chicago.
Above all, he does not debate mere contingencies, and therefore, if these are possibly dreadful, find himself forced into inaction.
Sharp division of opinion, too, and strenuous debate.
He swayed them somewhat, but the debate raged on.
" The speech created an evocative image of the danger of disunion caused by the slavery debate, and rallied Republicans across the North.
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