Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...content with just an energy program, the Governor also plans his own space program for California, complete with a communications satellite, a space-faring academy with courses in space law and trade and a space research institute within the University of California. Brown detractors are chuckling. Wisecracks one: "Jerry has always been a little spaced-out, but this is carrying things...
Apparently not content with his sales commissions on the nuclear deal, Disini acquired the Philippine Summa Insurance Corp., which promptly won a portion of the $693 million policy sold to the National Power Corporation to cover the Bataan plant. The ambitious entrepreneur also bought controlling interest in the consortium of firms that are constructing the generator under contract from Westinghouse. But the fate of these lucrative enterprises may now be in doubt. Marcos last week ordered his Department of Industry "to look into what corporations of Mr. Disini's can be legitimately divested from him, especially those for which...
...number of new weapons systems are on the horizon. Moreover proponents of the B-l-notably Rockwell International, which still has 6,000 people at work on prototypes-are lobbying furiously on behalf of their aircraft, and hope that the supersonic bomber project may be revived. Commercial airlines seem content to replace aging planes with existing models or variations that are more advanced in terms of fuel economy and noise...
...secrecy of the hearings, and the whole dirty chore of censuring and punishing political activity. A Crimson editorial from the winter of 1970 observed, "In a polarized community such as this one, a committee such as the CRR can only dole out punishment that is inherently political in content--punishment against those who are diametrically opposed to the order in power that the CRR represents...
...Tavianis' film-making techniques remain daring throughout, but Padre Padrone's style finally proves to be not only the movie's principal virtue but its undoing. The directors are too coldly rigorous in their efforts to remain aloof from the emotional content of their story: they place so large an intellectual distance between us and the characters that the gap becomes unbridgeable. That is why we admire Padre Padrone without being engaged by it, and care more about the filmmakers' achievements than we do about what happens to the hero. Like other such oddities as Resnais...