Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AMERICA'S traditional role as leader of the free world has been legitimated by the consistency in its words and deeds. By creating a gap between the substance of actions and the content of rhetoric, that basis for American power has been removed. Efforts to preserve freedom and individual rights will be seen as self-serving attempts to justify hegemonic advances on other nations...
...little attention will be paid to the significance of the fact that, across the country, a growing number of citizens are content to leave decisions about the running of the res publica to others. In the last congressional elections, only 38 percent of the eligible citizens went to the polls. This figure was the lowest in 45 years and in several states the turnout was the lowest since 1798. In effect, Americans are returning to the way of doing political business that was the norm before the civil rights movement...
...plutocratic owners. Having won their victory over the players, the owners showed contempt for both their employees and customers by refusing to allow striking players to return to the field this weekend and were content to subject the fans to one more weekend of pseudo-football...
...activist groups, including Action for Children's Television, have mounted a serious court challenge to the FCC. In two rulings, the second of which came last week, federal judges in Washington have ordered the FCC to justify its policy or come up with new guidelines on the commercial content of children...
...hands out a 90-question "preference inventory." In his class on managerial effectiveness, William Zierdt offers individual analysis of the results, adding, "I also read tea leaves, or you can bring your own chicken." Thus a volunteer learns that he's a decision- making rationalist with no emotional content. "Hell, that's success in the business world," says Zierdt...