Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Gatto is quite content with his position at Tufts he said, "Everyone expects me to go back to Harvard to coach." And while he admits that "everyone thinks about working at his Alma Mater," he considers Restic "one of the best coaches in the country who won't leave Harvard unless he gets a Pro offer that he wants...
...T.M.I, operators, the report notes, scored higher than the national average in the NRC licensing and operating examinations. Nonetheless, in these tests, ''emphasis was not given to fundamental understanding of the reactor and little time was devoted to instruction in the biological hazards of radiation. The content was left to the instructors, who had no greater formal education qualifications than those of their students.'' In fact, there is no minimum educational requirement for control room operators...
...secret of the fact that he disagreed with Begin's hard-line policy in dealing with the Palestinians. He genuinely want ed to reach some kind of agreement with the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza over their future relations with Israel (see box); Begin seemed content to let the status quo drift on forever. Because of this disagreement, Dayan refused to head the Israeli delegation in the autonomy talks. In he was further iso lated from the negotiations by illness he underwent surgery for removal of a malignant intestinal tumor...
...West Coast still fascinates Field, and she may end up in Oregon after all. But right now Cambridge suits her, and she's content to play the duck out of water around her academic-oriented classmates...
...blind men's songs had not been passed by the censor. "Mighty deeds were being done there," he adds with fu rious sarcasm. "Complete collectivization was under way, they had destroyed ku laks as a class, and here were these blind men, walking around singing songs of dubious content." Shostakovich vows that some day, the people who were respon sible for this and similar "evil deeds" will be brought to account, if only before their descendants. "If I didn't believe in that completely, life wouldn't be worth living...