Word: contention
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final draft of the document, which HEW officials originally promised for last December, has still not been released. Richard Ogden, assistant audit director in HEW's regional office, refuses to comment about the content of the agency's charges, saying only that the final report will be ready sometime this December. Federal officials are even more tight-lipped about the investigation...
...arrives he will investigate the historical and philosophical reasons for the non-credit tradition. "I can and will make a strong argument for drama getting course credit," he says, but he adds, "I would never make a case for credit for a performance apart from a class with theoretical content." But while more drama courses get credit with Brustein's leadership, it will probably be some time before all studio work is recognized at Harvard...
...started innocuously enough. The New York Public Interest Group (NYPIRG) included in its 1978 legislative agenda--right beside its diatribes on funeral costs and sugar content--the promise to work for a "truth in testing" bill, because "students and others whose careers are depending on the results of machine-correctable examinations have a right to know the significance of these tests...
...owned dominion (he had all the voting stock) now encompasses 29 newspapers (biggest: the Newark Star-Ledger and the Cleveland Plain Dealer), seven magazines, five radio stations and a score of cable TV systems. Running his empire out of a battered briefcase, Newhouse cared little about his papers' content and read only their bottom lines. Said he: "Only a sound business operation can be a truly independent editorial enterprise...
...difference between the loan guarantee and the tax credit is, however, more one of form than of content. If the government guaranteed a loan of $750 million to Chrysler, and the company went bankrupt, the government--through the tax-payers--would foot the bill. If the government advanced Chrysler the money through the tax credit instead, it would take the risk of never getting its money back. But the choice between the two is like a choice between apples and oranges--pay now, pay later, it's all a matter of taste...