Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outset, the final stage was an amateurish hit-or-miss affair. The coqueros were content to ship cocaine into the U.S. via "mules," who would coat their stomachs with cod-liver oil or honey, then swallow the cocaine wrapped in condoms. If they were lucky, they could flush the drug out once they were over the border. Soon enough, however, the cocaine czars could afford to send bulk shipments into the U.S. in their own DC-6 aircraft or by high-powered speedboats. By 1983, indeed, the system was running so efficiently that the market was glutted with cocaine...
...aisle. When it was over, the President was called back to the podium to receive an outsize birthday card and a rousing round of Happy Birthday to You. Though Reagan got generally high marks for his effective delivery, many critics took him to task for the speech's content. Lamented Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, a Republican: "I wish he had spent more time on the deficit." Of course, Dole conceded, "when you have something that you're not proud of, you don't raise it as the centerpiece of your speech." Democratic House Speaker O'Neill jabbed harder still...
...pace, moreover, was more leisurely than the traditional pre-med program. For example, a one semester course was spread over 15 weeks, a luxury not possible in the typically crammed medical school curricula. In the end, however, the theoretical content covered in the courses was similar to that covered in many of the traditional medical school programs...
...sound, then the head gets cut off from the bod. And people will tend to go into generalizations and hyper-abstraction of the language. Words have to refer to something real, and when we begin to take words as having eternal abstract essence without any physical reference, the human content is removed from the language. As Pound points out, when the words in poetry get cut off from the song and dance they have lost their muscularity, their physical presence...
...arguing for the present system say that if 70 percent of students get their first choice then 70 percent of the student body must be happy. I remain unconvinced that all students in their first choice house--not to mention the other 30 percent--are extremely satisfied. Many are content, but they rightly believe that something is missing from their House environment...