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Word: contentions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late (and great) Allan Bloom perhaps put it best when he said "love suggests something wonderful, exciting, positive, and firmly seated in the passions. A relationship is gray, amorphous, suggestive of a project, without a given content and tentative. You work at a relationship, whereas love takes care of itself...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Love's End | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...will be content with nothing less than a Harvard environment that encourages both women and men to achieve and excel within the College community and beyond," Knowles said in the report...

Author: By Amber L. Ramage, | Title: Report Released To Examine Women's Issues | 4/30/1997 | See Source »

Whichever one you use, whenever you're frustrated with the lack of meaningful content on the internet, just remember the biblical saying...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: techTALK | 4/29/1997 | See Source »

...uncertainties associated with tobacco stocks. But any talk of a final settlement appeared wildly premature. For one thing, antismoking forces in the Administration and Congress stress that the Food and Drug Administration must retain the power to regulate tobacco as a drug, as well as limit the nicotine content of cigarettes--conditions that the industry has resisted. And some lawyers were dismissive of the $300 billion as not nearly enough compensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMOKING OUT A DEAL | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...California, was by no means a tragedy. Thirty-nine people did what they felt was necessary to achieve eternal happiness. They died of their own free will. Who are we to question their motives? We should not mourn their death. They fulfilled their purpose in life and died content. Who could ask for more? ALEX STEWART Summerville, South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1997 | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

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