The day's proceedings unfolded as the committee worked its way through more than 300 amendments, some of them noncontroversial and others intensely so.

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In public, the first lady stuck to noncontroversial projects such as her "Just Say No" campaign against drug abuse and the Foster Grandparents program.

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"There are some noncontroversial-type, good-for-society-type applications we'd consider, " he says.

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What remains to be seen is whether these cloned embryonic stem cells are more useful therapeutically than the noncontroversial induced pluripotent stem cells, and questions linger about their effectiveness.

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It may at first glance appear noncontroversial, even commonsensical.

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He will facilitate it by making it appear noncontroversial.

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As a director, she was peripheral, noncontroversial.

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New START is anything but noncontroversial.

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"So you have this amazing amount of pressure, funneling in to one or two health care bills a year, which means that any one bill, even if it should be noncontroversial, ends up becoming bigger and bigger and bigger, " he says.

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Given that the Act was rushed through under a procedure reserved for noncontroversial legislation, never voted on in committee, and was never posted (in its modern October 10th form) for public review, well, let's just say our distrust of the Nanny State has peaked.

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