These incidents, typical of many others, dramatize the distressing fact that no controversy during the last several decades has caused more tension, rancor and strife among religious groups in this country than the birth-control issue.

-- James P. Mitchell and Sen. Walter H. Jones R-Bergen, last night disagreed on the value of using as a campaign issue a remark by Richard J. Hughes, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, that the GOP is `` Campaigning on the carcass of Eisenhower Republicanism ''.

Mitchell said the closeness of the outcome in last fall's Presidential election did not mean that Eisenhower Republicanism was a dead issue.

Indeed, from the moment the reports of the coming issue first started circulating in Dallas last January, the inquiries and demand for the stock started building up.

The London Universe devoted its centenary issue last December 8 to mapping out various aspects of Catholic progress during the last one hundred years.

A few English banks continued to issue their own notes until the last of them was taken over in the 1930s.

The last private bank to issue its own banknotes in England and Wales was Fox, Fowler and Company in 1921.

One last distinction within citizenship is the so-called consent descent distinction, and this issue addresses whether citizenship is a fundamental matter determined by a person choosing to belong to a particular nation –– by his or her consent –– or is citizenship a matter of where a person was born –– that is, by his or her descent.

The last new comic book story drawn by Carl Barks was a Daisy Duck tale (" The Dainty Daredevil ") published in Walt Disney Comics Digest issue 5 ( Nov. 1968 ).

The abolition of the dragoon units, believed to be the last non-ceremonial horse cavalry in Europe, was a contentious issue in Switzerland.

He also edited the first anthology of original sf, The Girl With the Hungry Eyes ( 1947 ), although there is evidence that this last was originally intended to be the first issue of a new magazine.

The last Ace issue was # 118, which corresponded to German issue # 126 as some of the Ace editions contained two of the German issues, and three of the German issues had been skipped.

While Constantinople experienced a succession of councils alternately approving and condemning doctrine concerning hesychasm considered as identified with Palamism ( the last of the five senses in which, according to Kallistos Ware, the term is used ), the Western Church held no council in which to make a pronouncement on the issue, and the word " hesychasm " does not appear in the Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum ( Handbook of Creeds and Definitions ), the collection of Roman Catholic teachings originally compiled by Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger.

The second major issue was over the inclusion of God in the last section of the document, with the draft using the phrase " and placing our trust in the Almighty ".

The first issue was published by GDW in 1979 and the last of the first run was # 24 in 1985.

Cannon declined to run in the 1922 Congressional election, and retired at the end of his last term in 1923 ; he was featured on the cover of the first issue of Time magazine on the last day of his last term in office.

After publishing in the last issue of the magazine an analysis of the May 1968 revolts, and the strategies that will need to be adopted in future revolutions, the SI was dissolved in 1972.

Some of the early comic book competitors were Nuts !, Get Lost, Whack, Riot, Flip, Eh !, From Here to Insanity, and Madhouse ; only the last of these lasted as many as eight issues, and some were canceled after an issue or two.

He finally managed to perfect it in 1790, with the issue of the " first-edition " of copies ( with some of this edition, including the V & A one, copying the cameo's delicacy by a combination of undercutting and shading the reliefs in grey ), and it marks his last major achievement.

Feeling how insecure his throne was, Mikhail attempted to emphasize his ties with the last Rurik tsars and sought advice from the Assembly of the Land on every important issue.

In the last eight years, however, a wide consensus has been reached among the vast majority of Slovenian political parties to jointly work in the improvement of the country's diplomatic infrastructure and to avoid politicizing the foreign relations by turning them into an issue of internal political debates.

In 2009, Transparency International ranked the nation in last place on its annual Corruption Perceptions Index ( CPI ), a metric that purports to show the prevalence of corruption in a country's public sector.

Lava Creek Tuff is known to be at least 1000 times as large as the deposits of the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, and it had a Volcanic Explosivity Index ( VEI ) of 8 — greater than any eruption known in the last 10, 000 years.

The BluFin Consumer Confidence Index ( CCI ) was 39. 9 in March, 2012 compared with its lowest score of 35. 8 in December last year.

This was one of the most violent eruptions in the last 5000 years ( alongside the Tianchi eruption of Baekdu at around 1000 and the 1815 eruption of Tambora ), with a Volcanic Explosivity Index rating of 7 ; and there appears to be a correlation, to within a few years, of a year in which the sky was red over Rome and China.

Bicycle playing cards are sold in a variety of decks featuring different cards ( such as for use in pinochle ), back designs ( including the traditional rider back and older Vintage backs ), face designs ( including Jumbo Index and Lo Vision cards for the visually impaired, and a " PokerPeek " design on their Pro series decks that simplifies looking at hole cards ), and sizes ( such as narrower bridge decks, thicker Masters Edition cards designed to last longer, and Big Bicycle cards that are four times the normal card size ).

Notably, pursuant to the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index ( FSP Index ) released by the Academic Analytics organization of Stony Brook, NY, SDSU is the number one small research university in the United States as of the last four ( 4 ) academic years, from 2005-2006 through the 2009-2010 academic years.

The last major eruption on Galunggung was in 1982, which had a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 4 and killed 72 people.

In 1542 the Sacred Congregation of the Inquisition was formed and a few years later the Index Librorum Prohibitorum banned a wide array of Renaissance works of literature, which marks the end of the illuminated manuscript together with Giulio Clovio, who is considered the greatest illuminator of the Italian High Renaissance, and arguably the last very notable artist in the long tradition of the illuminated manuscript, before some modern revivals.

The Dow Jones Industrial Stock Index had continued its upward move for weeks, and coupled with heightened speculative activities, it gave an illusion that the bull market of 1928 to 1929 would last forever.

For the last 10 years, Shandong University has been continuously ranked among the top 10 universities nationwide in terms of the number of publications included in the Science Citation Index.

According to the 2008 American Customer Satisfaction Index, a University of Michigan study of 80, 000 consumers ’ expectations and preferences, the major US airlines ranked last among all the industries surveyed.

Among Argentine provinces, it ranks last by GDP per capita and 21st by Human Development Index, above neighbors Formosa and Santiago del Estero.

This event is rated as 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, but the eight-month emission of sulfuric aerosols resulted in one of the most important climatic and socially repercussive events of the last millennium.

To arrive at the Dosage Index, the first two figures plus one-half the value of the third figure are added together, and then divided by one-half of the third figure plus the sum of the last two figures.

William Laurence Sullivan ( November 15, 1872 — October 5, 1935 ) was an American Unitarian clergyman, prolific author and literary critic, whose Letters to His Holiness, Pope Pius X ( 1910 ), was the last work by a U. S. author to have been placed on Vatican's list of prohibited books ( Index Librorum Prohibitorum ).

Their band name is derived from the economic indicator of the same name, which was also the namesake of the last album by Assück, from whom Misery Index also draw inspiration.

In November 2004 it was reported that the company came last in a global customer service survey of 64 telecom companies, receiving a score of just 2. 6 out of 10 for response times to customer queries from the Customer Respect Index ( CRI ).

The eruption produced about 150 km³ of tephra, giving it a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 7 and making it one of the most explosive in the last 10, 000 years, ranking alongside Santorini, Changbaishan, Crater Lake, Kurile Lake and Tambora.

In 2011, it ranked 67th in the PEI300 ( Private Equity Index 300 ) ranking of private equity firms by assets deployed, with $ 4. 68bn invested in private equity over the last five years.

There have been nine modifications to the Index calculation and component commodities since its inception in 1956, the last change occurring in 1995.

The Berryessa schools have tended to improve over the last decade, with the top performer, Ruskin Elementary School, having an API ( Academic Performance Index ) of 903 ( out of 1000 ) as of Fall 2008.

North Korea is currently ranked second to last ( ahead of Eritrea ) on the World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders.

* Amnesty International, Georgia — Thousands Suffering in Silence: Violence Against Women in the Family, AI Index: EUR 56 / 009 / 2006, September 2006 ( last accessed Aug. 18, 2011 ).