Robert Zoellick, the United States trade representative, and his European counterpart, Pascal Lamy, have struggled together to contain an increasingly contentious set of trade irritants -- most recently, European anger over steel-import restrictions imposed by President Bush on March 20.
At a time when teachers are being threatened with layoffs, he will oversee a contentious set of issues: relations with the teachers' union, the creation of new teacher evaluations, and the city's effort to use technology and other means to transform classrooms.
The introduction of choice plans forms part of a decidedly contentious set of issues that are high on the political agenda of Sweden.
We wish to stimulate further discussion of this new research domain by considering a case study using a famous and contentious set of archaeological objects: the terracotta warriors of China's first emperor.
"I've been on a set where actors have meltdowns, there's screaming people, the director is yelling, cussing, there's physical abuse, emotional abuse," says Hardwicke, who worked as the production designer on the notoriously contentious set of David O. Russell's Three Kings.
Sperber and Wilson contend that this processing model accounts for standard Gricean implicatures, metaphors included, without requiring the listener to reconstruct the speaker's precise rationale for speaking as she did and without a rich and contentious set of conversational norms.
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to adopt a contentious set of rules Thursday that, in order to preserve the freedom of consumers and content providers online, dramatically limits the freedom that Time Warner Cable, AT&T and other Internet service providers have long enjoyed.
But the Washington action had an important difference that soon proved contentious: it set a dosage level meant to prompt the referral.
Max Mirnyi of Belarus and Andrea Hlavackova of the Czech Republic fought back nerves in a contentious opening set to defeat Santiago Gonzalez of Mexico and Abigail Spears of the United States, 7-6 (5), 6-3, in the mixed doubles final of the United States Open on Friday.
They should concentrate on "easy" issues first, setting contentious debate about Tibet's status to one side for now.
