Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next day Iran was still holding to the line that it had no connection to the hostage takers. Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted an unidentified foreign ministry official as saying Iran had refused a Bush message about the hostages sent via a third country. "Since the content had nothing to do with Iran," the news agency quoted the official as saying, "the message was not accepted." Tehran's denials were contradicted by an Israeli intelligence report claiming that Obeid had confessed that Hizballah's terrorist activities were directed by the Iranian embassies in Beirut and Damascus...
...strongest part is the power of these programs to validate the importance of what educators are doing in their professional lives," says Clifford H. Baden, the PPE's director. "We bring them here, give them a professional development program that informs them about content and theory and puts them in touch with some of the best thinkers in the country on these topics...
McPhee's heroes are not content to go with the flow, be it the Mississippi River's wanton meanderings, the angry surge of molten rock from an Icelandic volcano, or the periodic slide of real estate in California's San Gabriel Mountains, where waterborne debris can roar down hillsides and turn million- dollar dream houses into nightmares for owners and insurance companies. McPhee's strength is the odd detail of natural disaster: "The house became buried to the eaves. Boulders sat on the roof. Thirteen automobiles were packed around the building, including five in the pool . . . The stuck horn...
...naturally, the public is far from content. In part the problem lies with the failure of the profession and the government to police medicine adequately, since the stakes could not be higher. If a stockbroker is incompetent, his client may lose his savings; if a doctor is negligent, his patient may lose his vision, his memory, his mobility or his life. Though the public, the government and the physicians themselves have become more vigilant, the persistent stories of medical mishaps continue to take their toll on patient confidence...
Whether that role will eventually include a resurgence of militarism or simply demands for more influence in international groups like the World Bank remains to be seen. But one thing is certain--the Japan of the coming decade will no longer be able to stay content as a series of islands unto themselves...