A year later the artists were able to persuade Congress to undo the work-for-hire language for songs and recordings, and that seemed to have settled the issue.
Once the two men had settled the issue and left the room, Alloush, speaking of the Arab tribes, told me, "They don't necessarily believe in our ideology.
Luckily for South, West, with no help from his partner, had no reason to hit on a spade lead, which would have settled the issue.
But an international team of scientists reported yesterday that new chemical tests of 28,000-year-old Neanderthal bones may have settled the issue.
If anyone had doubts about the madness that has spread through a large part of the American political spectrum, the reaction to Friday's better-than expected report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics should have settled the issue.
A resounding rejection of independence, as many had thought would be the case at the outset of the campaign, might have settled the issue and secured Scotland inside the UK for a generation.
Soloway gave up three spades and the heart six, confirming South's view of the situation and leaving this position: Diagram South could have settled the issue by playing hearts, but he was in the grip of an illusion.
Bush v. Gore, which "determined the outcome of the election," barely gets a mention, and the 1973 abortion decision earns a backhanded nod: "No one, it seems, considers the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade to have settled the issue for all time.
"We should have settled the issue earlier, and we are deeply heartbroken that we failed to do so and express our deep apology".
