Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bigwigs have already offered mea culpas for giving Russia, which is in the throes of economic and political paralysis, such a vital job -- the completion of which is essential to maintaining the construction schedule. Live and learn. Until the Russians get back on schedule, NASA crews will have to content themselves with busy work -- like schlepping 3,620 pounds of supplies from Discovery to the station interior, beginning Sunday evening. At least they seem to be enjoying...
...much as I wanted to take this opportunity to immerse her in my life at college--its relationships, locales and schedule. There will be many more days spent crafting critical these for future papers but probably few other opportunities to familiarize my mom so personally with the daily content of my life away from home. And how often had my mother set aside her own work projects to spend time with me and respond to my concerns? The tutorial paper would get done...
...reached a point where it might feature in Milosevic's strategic calculations. NATO Tuesday agreed to assemble a 50,000-strong peacekeeping force to enter Kosovo once an agreement with Belgrade is achieved. But with the alliance turning down British demands that a ground invasion be considered, Milosevic remains content to wait for NATO to sweeten its peace offer...
...problem with Boutros-Ghali's criticism, says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell, is less with its content than its provenance. "Boutros-Ghali was so deeply flawed as a secretary general that his own staff despised him," says Dowell. "His imperiousness had alienated them to the point that they were constantly leaking damaging information to the media." Boutros-Ghali's attack, though, points to a shift in the Clinton administration away from its initial emphasis on building consensus in multilateral forums such as the U.N. "Instead of trying to win international support for U.S. policy, Washington began to simply announce...
...encouraging this sort of customer service-minded culture to expand to every level of the campus, everyone gains. A happier and more content student body surely leads to higher alumni giving rate in the future...