And I think the reason it is considered a landmark conference is that quite a number of issues came to the fore, Controversy surrounded the Durban AIDS conference even before it opened.

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who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. "I think there are a significant number of people in the country who have, and I don't know the exact percentages, that have questions about deepening our military involvement in Afghanistan,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"I think that survey shows that, as minorities and women pursue a STEM career, they have to face a number of barriers along the pipeline (SAYING...) and what we need to do as a society is really understand what these roadblocks are."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

"If he does not show some progress and it just seems like we are getting deeper and deeper into an occupation and a counter-insurgency effort without any positive news for a number of months, I think he could face some real opposition,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.02