Search Details

Word: contentions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

NEXT MOVE Deals with hip Web brands to bolster Go's content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberspace: Star Wars | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...with the most momentum last week, the so-called finding-of-fact proposal, would have cataloged the offenses that Senators believed had been proved in the trial, allowing them to affirm that the President had coached witnesses and lied to the grand jury. The proposal was almost indistinguishable in content from the punishment preferred by most Democrats--censure--yet Democrats rejected it as an unconstitutional sham. "To do this because some Senators are uncomfortable with acquittal and need some political cover is to engage in schizophrenia," complained Connecticut Democrat Chris Dodd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for the Bell | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...take it. Anyway, how does anyone know that luck isn't another name for fate, that the arbitrary isn't inevitable, and that the appearance of chance and happenstance aren't simply heaven's way of amusing itself? As far as I'm concerned, babe, "I'm content./ The angels must have sent you,/and they meant you just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Arbitrary Valentine | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...bubble has been correctly filled in, but can it read outside the lines, so to speak? Well, yes and no. E-Rater "learns" what constitutes good and bad answers from a sample of pregraded essays. Using that information, it breaks the essay down to its syntax, organization and content. The software checks basics like subject-verb agreement as well as recognizes words, phrases and sentence structures that are likely to be found in high-scoring essays. For example, an essay on Clinton's impeachment trial that includes terms like DNA and rule of law is likely to garner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Computers Do the Grading | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...connected / the most beautiful / lost metaphor in the world." His persistence in revamping sentence and idea structure in order to illustrate experience despite the fragility of language is thus made explicit. His method, however, is not so straightforward, relying on intuition and dream("one must dream patiently / hoping the content will become complete...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zbigniew H. Dies, a Master | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

Previous | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | Next