Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University previously received many of the Intellipath features at added cost from their telephone companies. For at least the next year, however, the Harvard University Network--which operates Intellipath--will offer the services to administrators and departments at no added cost. But students may have to be content to order them through New England Telephone until as late...
...race, the former Manhattan borough president was hardly a bold choice for a city accustomed to setting trends. Courtly, cautious and unfailingly polite, Dinkins, 62, is a classic clubhouse politician who spent 35 years loyally trudging up the Democratic Party ladder while more dynamic black leaders overshadowed him. Seemingly content to forge a career based more on amiability than activism, he had never displayed the ruthless ambition and toughness most New Yorkers thought it took to reach the top. Says his old friend and former Deputy Mayor Basil Patterson: "David was always showing...
...sense of real-life drama that mirrors the film's content is revealed, almost by accident. An ambulance streaks down the street during an interview and our attention is directed to medics rushing into the neighboring apartments. In a later section, a woman speaks of sleeping on a doorstep all night to be first in line for the extras casting and how she constantly woke up in fear...
Pursuing this line of questioning, I queried Deep Throat about the sodium content of our meals. My source related some arterty-boggling numbers...
...there is a , course in ethics, and the incoming class is treated with unaccustomed humanity. "Demanding but not demeaning" is the cadre's new motto. Only the school prayer goes on as before: "Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a half truth when the whole...