California air regulators are moving to relax a controversial and closely watched program that would force automobile manufacturers to sell electric cars starting in 2003.
Polls have shown that more Washington voters support the initiative than oppose it, but, like the Oregon measure, it is controversial and closely contested.
On Monday, after 19 months behind bars, Pu will go on trial in Beijing in what will be one of the most controversial and closely watched cases of President Xi Jinping's crackdown on dissent.
IN THE event, the controversial and closely fought contest to become president of the World Bank ended in exactly the same way as all the earlier stitch-ups: the American candidate won.
And this is the real story of this election: that in the most contested vote, in the most controversial, most closely scrutinised and most argued-about country in the world, in the place that declares itself "the only democracy in the Middle East", many have given up altogether on democracy.
Using toad-headed agamas of the Phrynocephalus vlangalii complex as a case study, we apply model-based assignment tests to microsatellite DNA data to test whether P. putjatia, a controversial species that closely resembles P. vlangalii morphologically, represents a valid species.
The contest is both well known and controversial within the tight circle of A.I.; winning programs are closely studied by both academics and corporate centers like Sprint Labs.
MOST of all, political speech is closely monitored, with controversial Web sites routinely blocked.
Jayawardene was also a consistently chirpy presence in the slips, presenting further evidence of the ill-feeling that has simmered between the teams since the reporting of Sri Lanka's off-spinner Sachithra Senanayake for a suspect bowling action during the one-day series, followed closely by the controversial run-out of Jos Buttler at Edgbaston.
France's data protection watchdog has set up a meeting with Google to closely examine its controversial privacy policy.
