Mr. Gore emphasized his willingness to take some money out of contention for either tax cuts or additional spending, vowing to set aside $300 billion of the projected surplus over the next 10 years in case the surplus does not materialize as projected.
Their contention is either wishful thinking or planted in their minds by Tehran; it cannot be scientific since, given the dreadful and dictatorial nature of the mullahs' regime, there is no way for independent, fair and objective polling.
But Cameroon are not in contention for either of the two qualifying spots available to group runners-up.
This account is fine as far as it goes, but it would not support the contention that either cause or effect exist substantially, with svabhāva.
Their contention in either case is that the believer can be rationally justified or at least cannot be shown to be behaving irrationally in holding certain beliefs, even if these beliefs themselves are not supported by evidence.
The complainers, though, have never refuted the contentions in either of these columns or in a detailed study I published 11 years ago, "The Failure of Technical Analysis".
Particularly so when major regional players such as Turkey and Iran are holding on closely to their cards in the two key Arab nations, while the Kurdish element present in both countries remains a major point of either contention, harmony, convergence, or competition for the players.
There are no hard and fast answers, and as with the most interesting ideas out there, some of the data is contradictory or can be seen to support either contention in context.
The old New England fatalism, largely absent in Ortizian times, was returning, and one heard jokes that the local nine would likely be eliminated from contention before either the hockey or the basketball team, both still alive in their respective playoffs.
