Word: content
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only noise that Foreman is eager for is the telephone, ringing with Tyson's call. "We keep on winning, and that phone will ring," assures Foreman's brother Roy, his manager. "One day Tyson'll have to come to us." Until that happens, the old slugger is content enough dreaming his dream. "Champeen of the world," he beams. "Champeen. Great stuff there...
...years, China crafted its own foreign policy with a heavy ideological content, but in the past decade it has shifted to a more hard-nosed policy based on practical interests. Foreign investment and technology are now key to its modernization program...
...South Korean protest was triggered when a test requested by consumer groups showed the Alar content of U.S. grapefruit to be 0.5 parts per million or less. But since the lab equipment was not accurate enough to measure below that level, this was "equivalent to a finding of no Alar," says Dan Gunter, executive director of Florida's department of citrus. Says he: "Alar is not used on grapefruit." The Korean government declared U.S. grapefruit safe, but American growers fear the sour taste may linger...
According to Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan), the answer is a definitive, but content...
...fills up with so many images," he says, and one is suddenly aware how many of our images of the Third World come from his tightly woven books. He once wrote, "I have no attitudes; no views. I have appetites and reactions, violent reactions." Naipaul claims he is now content to be a quiet listener. Readers looking for a verbal lynching by the leading chronicler of modern folly and delusion may have been disappointed by his recently published A Turn in the South. But what they got was far more than the standard tour of the new liberal Dixie...