Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...content of the two documents is so puerile and outrageous that one is tempted to believe they are parodies," Nye wrote in the memo. "If serious, they reflect a level of ignorance and cowardice unworthy of a member of this community...
...made few in a sober and sobering 24-minute address. One, to pay all pensions owed by June 3, actually drew some smiles from Duma members. Other skepticism was not so thinly disguised. Afterward, Communist Party leader Genna dy Zyuganov called the performance "miserable, helpless, buffoonery without any real content behind it. I would like to hear why there is no economic growth. And why pensions, social payments and wages are not being paid." Yeltsin's speech, though, demonstrated a full grasp of the why. The evident difficulty will be in the how: how to restore the rule...
...outgoing officers of Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), we would like to communicate our deep concerns about issues facing the Association. Reflecting on our experience, we continue to believe that both the content of changes attempted by Assistant Dean for Public Service Judith H. Kidd and the style employed in these endeavors are endangering the culture and integrity of PBHA programs...
...large extent, much of the debate surrounding the multicultural student center since the late 1960s has been repetitive in its language and unoriginal in its content. Despite the fact that both sides favor intercultural exchange and understanding, the arguments about whether or not such a center can achieve that goal have become entrenched in the same rhetoric, much to the frustration of both sides. Let's examine some of the main points of contention of the debate and really look at the reasoning behind their mere language...
...Sears called the clubs the "last socially acceptable group to discriminate against," dismissing Epps' report as, "whiny, patently self-serving, smug and patronizing," and noting that the formation of the clubs reflects "Harvard's [failure]...to provide places for undergraduates to go where people can have as much fun." Content to brush off revelations of sexual harassment and drug dealing by blaming Harvard's social life, Sears has more gall than even we would have expected...