Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early '80s there was plenty of denial but also the idea that drugs aren't good," says Dailey. "Honestly, today a lot of parents don't feel that way. They hark back to the days when they used. And they don't realize what's happened to drug content or what the implications are of using at such young ages...
...snapping and snarling sessions ensued, and Kessler won more than his share. In 1994 he announced new rules that required all manufacturers of processed foods to list their fat, fiber and calorie content. A former pipe smoker, he took on the tobacco industry, insisting that the FDA has the authority to regulate nicotine as an addictive drug and calling for restrictions in cigarette ads aimed at minors. He also lost a few battles, including his attempt to keep untested dietary supplements off the market...
...traditions at once. Most often this event is a holiday party or study break, where house residents come to talk and eat delicious food--about the same things that they talk about at other study breaks. The holidays become yet another opportunity for a social gathering, and all religious content is removed...
...this October. The event involved rituals of harvest-time holidays of three religions. To be sure, these holidays share a great deal in common. But students of all three faiths were offended because the event mushed everything together and blurred important boundaries. This sort of format works for a content-less holiday party but is inappropriate when it serves as the basis for a substantive interfaith discussion...
...which the French poet declared, somewhat arbitrarily, that carriages in the Bois de Boulogne and brothels were the two acceptable subjects for the "painter of modern life." The five female figures nakedly displaying themselves in Les Demoiselles are fairly obviously in a brothel, but Picasso, characteristically, was not content simply to do something that others had done before him. ("You've got to make what doesn't exist," he once said; "what has never been made before. That's painting.") Picasso's original contribution stemmed from his first viewing, earlier in 1907, of African masks and fetishes at a Paris...