Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...altered. Sweet 'n Low and other sugar substitutes may vanish from the table, forcing dieting coffee and tea drinkers to take their favorite brew straight-or with sugar. Leading soft-drink manufacturers like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are promising to continue marketing diet drinks, presumably by reducing sugar content of some beverages, resorting to sweeteners like high-fructose corn syrup, and perhaps adding citrus or other flavorings. But some of these newcomers may be richer in calories than saccharin-sweetened brands and may not be as tasty...
That, however, is nothing compared to what basketball captain Jeff Hill told me last week about the shabby treatment the administration gives the hoopsters. It seems the University was content with having the tall guys take the MTA to the airport for their distant road games, which is fine if you're Pencey Prep...
...conditions back of conditions" would seem to imply a political perspective. And it often did: some of the Living Newspaper plays provoked controversy for their political content, and an official of the theatre group resigned in protest over a censorship dispute...
...February 1976. Informed of his risky friendships, Traube's bosses told him that West Germany's controversial nuclear energy program would suffer if word of his social life leaked to the press while he was still running Interatom's program for developing fast-breeder reactors. Not content with a comfortable financial settlement, Traube demanded a federal investigation and instead received a letter exonerating him of any wrongdoing. Nonetheless, he was unable to regain his job-or a position that he particularly wanted with JET, the inter-European nuclear power project. There the matter stood until a source...
...Teresa Trull, Hazel Dickens and Holly Near; and Sunday, April 3 at 2 pm you'll hear Willie Tyson, Lucha and Meg Christian. Of these, I have heard only Holly Near, who does fine vocals to piano accompaniment. (Achtung!--the festival is sure to have a strong feminist content.) Tickets are $4.50 for a single performance, $8.50 for two, and $12 for the whole weekend; available now at the Women's Center...