A visit to "town meetings" on the issue here and in Winfield, Kan., and Rockford, Ill., this week showed a volatile, passionate debate at the grass roots.

The most volatile current debate among American school administrators, teachers, parents, and students concerns "high-stakes" testing.

After a volatile and contentious debate, the Speaker forced this legislation through the House by the razor thin margin of 219-213.

Evidence that some owners had managed to virtually empty hotels during the moratorium added another complication to the volatile debate.

But in France and across Europe, it is providing grist for a volatile debate about the role of big foreign investors, including American pension funds, in European business.

The findings throw yet another number into the volatile political and statistical debate over whether survey research tools can accurately measure behavior that is considered either bad or good by society.

As Congress returns for a volatile debate over tax cuts and budget priorities, many lawmakers and health care advocates say the strains on Medicaid will loom large.

Two previous meetings had been adjourned because of their volatile debates, and Regis couldn't let this council disintegrate before he had told them of the impending barbarian attack.

The question of how to salvage the American West generates debate vast and volatile.