Over 90 minutes the candidates covered issues spanning the eurozone crisis, Germany's tax system, health, low wages and the NSA spy scandal.
Issues spanning loss of virginity, alcoholism, dead relatives and the emotional leftovers from secrets and fall-outs might have delivered a cataclysmic blast of downers.
Also, in the ecotoxicology science community of chemicals, there is an ongoing, lively discussion on these issues spanning now at least four decades and the field is constantly striving for improved protocols to gain more relevance for field situations.
All three banks are already in plenty of hot water thanks to issues spanning from allegedly corrupt stock research to "spinning" hot initial public offering shares to investment banking clients in a quid pro quo to land more business from them.
"I want there to be a much more collective approach to leadership, a much more accountable approach, and a much more inclusive one," he tells me, laying out the plans for a series of policy debates, led by the membership on issues spanning education, economics and the environment.
Consultations address a broad range of issues, spanning the entire process of drug discovery and development (basic research to Phase 1 4 clinical trials), to medical affairs activities related to the anticipated clinical use of approved drugs or devices.
