Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking in Japan some time ago, Jose Torres was asked why Puerto Rico had * so many boxing champions and Japan so few. "You can't have champions in a society that is content," he answered. "My kids can't be champions. I spoiled them." Ken Norton's son has become a pro football player. "You have to know struggle," Tyson says...
...bill also requires that broadcasters air some educational programming for children in order to ensure renewal of their licenses. That marks a small but significant reversal of the Reagan Administration's effort to release broadcasters from all Government regulations on program content. Both provisions are expected to have no trouble passing the Senate...
...elected Speaker of Parliament. That post, combined with his new designation as commander in chief, makes him the most powerful leader below Khomeini. Because he does not have the necessary religious credentials, Rafsanjani will never be able to inherit the Ayatullah's mantle. He may instead be content to serve as the power behind the throne of Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, Khomeini's designated successor as spiritual leader. But by assuming his new military duties Rafsanjani also risks becoming a scapegoat for future Iranian defeats...
...never thought about a career because I thought the movement was going to be my life. When it crashed and burned, I was devastated. By '69 there were close to 100,000 members. The more unpopular the war became, the more unpopular the movement became. The movement was losing content and skidding...
After concluding that individual departments have foundered because of an overly decentralized and confused minority recruitment policy, the report says, "The Harvard community is not only ignorant about where it stands, it is content to remain sitting down...