Word: contentions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recent Harris poll showing that 63% of the American people accept civilian nuclear energy as clean, inexpensive and safe [Aug. 18], while only 19% oppose construction of more nuclear power plants, and a mere 5% believe them to be dangerous should help to reduce the emotional content of the often heated nuclear debate...
...world's lowest heart-disease rates; coronaries yearly claim only 92 out of every 100,000 of the country's males. Most medical researchers have long been convinced that the difference is dietary: the traditional fish-and-rice diet of the Japanese is much lower in fat content than the meat, dairy and fried-food menu favored by Americans. But a new study by researchers from the University of California at Berkeley seems to show that the difference is largely cultural, not culinary. The findings indict stress, American-style, as a major cause of coronaries...
...literally the master builder of the Third Reich-designing the monumental edifices that fulfilled his Führer's passion for grandeur-as well as the man who kept the Nazi war machine supplied. Now Albert Speer is content with more modest projects: writing his memoirs. When it was published six years ago, his Inside the Third Reich-a devastatingly intimate look at life within Hitler's inner circle-became an instant bestseller in West Germany and reached a wide audience abroad. The onetime Nazi architect in chief and Minister of Armaments and War Production has now completed...
...that success has already created a wedge in the Pips' solidarity. "When vocal groups are hungry, you can't split 'em with an ax," Cousin William once remarked. "As soon as success comes, all it takes is a butter cutter." Gladys scoffs, maintaining that she is content to remain one of the boys. "I'm not afraid to stand alone professionally," she says. "I simply don't want...
...want to get people to accept continuing education," he says, "you have to do it in small chunks so they can fit it into their busy lives, and in specific enough content so they can really focus on it--because that's how a mature person solves problems...