Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vice President he had three discussions with Gromyko. The Soviet Foreign Minister, who in all probability viewed his meeting with Mondale mainly as a courtesy gesture, was unlikely to offer anything not already passed on to Shultz. By mutual consent, no communiqué describing either the tone or the content of the meeting was planned...
...students or faculty interviewed said the content of Bok's letter was fairly predictable, but the president appears to be getting almost uniformly favorable response. "It made me feel proud to work here," says Mansfield, one of the professors most concerned about the Weinberger incident, adding that he appreciates the way Bok specifically attacked the arguments used to justify heckling. Those argument "seemed to me so poor an understanding of what free speech is al about--namely, an ability to listen. I thought that reaction was worse than the incident itself," Mansfield says...
WHAT THE VOTE could mean, though, is an end in some places to rampant hypocrisy about the liquor laws. When the Oklahoma Legislature turned back prohibition, they allowed for package stores, but only beer with an alcohol content of less than 3.2 percent could be served by the glass, at restaurants and taverns with appropriate licenses. At restaurants and even in the state's 1500 private clubs, patrons ostensibly had to bring their own bottles purchased elsewhere...
Union officials are aware of this. They contend that increasing productivity through capital improvements and a more skilled labor force will compensate for the higher pay workers receive. In the long run, they hope to limit many auto imports with domestic-content legislation in Congress, which would require that all cars sold in this country contain a specified minimum percentage of U.S.-made parts. By opposing the movement of manufacturing functions to lower-wage countries, the union is fighting a rearguard action. It is the same battle that has already been lost by workers in the textile, toy, photographic, radio...
...others? Should they, as opposed to those who derive their opposition to discrimination from secular sources, be barred on First Amendment grounds from influencing public policy? It is not where a belief comes from that marks it as "religious" and thus outside the political arena, but what its content...