Word: contentions
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...four employees enrolled in the program and has been sending executives to it for more than 20 years. Marchio says the automating grant likes the Harvard program because of its comprehensive approach and its state of the art content. The program covers two areas in particular, computers and strategic business planning, that GM thinks will help its executives "anticipate and react to change" in the future, Marchio adds...
...what has he said to the electorate this year? Practically nothing. He hasn't related a vision of the future as he did in 1980. This year, the people would be electing Republicans on blind faith, content to hang on to the status quo. The only purpose which might galvanize people to vote Republican is the prevention of a tax increase. But in fact, most voters are quite skeptical--given the size of the deficit--that Reagan in the end will be able fend off an imminent tax hike...
Madison is content with his life, in spite of its negatives. The pay-$26,000 a year-is not all that much, but it's enough to get by and he has just bought Nancy a microwave oven. This year he built a deck on the back of their home where they enjoy cool summer evenings. Besides, the alternatives seem unacceptable. Madison hates cities, and traffic makes him irritable. "I love the freedom," he says. "I think I've got the best job there...
...Chinese have also tried to spruce up their image. Radio Peking broadcasts 18 hours of programming daily to Eastern Europe, and the quality of the languages spoken by Chinese broadcasters has improved, as has the content of the programs. "It used to be just propaganda a few years ago," said an East European journalist. "But now the picture we have of China from radio broadcasts is really very like the way China...
Elliot, immediately phoned Marsden, who then calculated that a one kilometer gap separated each ring. He also made preliminery findings on the content of the rings. From there it was just a matter of hours before researchers all over the world received news of the discovery through Marsden's telegram network...