Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Protection of Freedom of Expression: Students should be free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in any course of study and to reserve judgment about matters of opinion, but they are responsible for learning the content of any course of study for which they are enrolled...
...forms alcohol. The elephant becomes hopelessly drunk, reeling around wildly and often standing up on its hind legs to reach more fruit. Each year the park's rangers have to shoot about 30 elephants who become mean drunks, and tests of their blood show a staggering alcoholic content. Most of the elephants go away to sleep off their hangovers, but they always come back for more. Unmindful of their reputation, they seem to forget what happened last time...
...molasses. The U.S. Treasury, as the chief free-world supplier of the metal, has kept the market quiet by selling bullion at a low $1.29 per oz. in order to keep the price below the point (about $1.40 per oz.) at which melting U.S. coins for their silver content becomes profitable. Last week, after the Treasury yielded to the rising demand on its own dwindling stocks by lifting the price lid after four years of control, silver exploded as the shining new commodity...
...mind. But Rear Admiral Paul Hebrard, a retired naval aviator who is Air Inter's chairman, insists that Mlle. Dubut is aboard only because the airline has now outgrown its supply of males. "Her record was faultless. There was no reason not to hire her," he says. Not content to leave well enough alone, the admiral makes the ridiculous claim: "She must also be considered not as a girl...
...Western European companies in search of new markets spread their operations across every continent, their craving for capital has drawn the free world's great banks after them. Not content with setting up ordinary foreign branches (U.S. banks alone now operate 244) and buying into existing banks in other countries, Western bankers have lately swung toward the creation of entirely new multinational banks. In one of the most ambitious ventures of its kind yet, five banks from four nations this week will open a jointly owned bank in London's prestigious Threadneedle Street...