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When reviewers failed to arrive at a consensus on the quality score, two content experts reviewed and scored the topic in contention by consensus.
Everybody makes it clear that the central bone of contention is Microsoft's practice of requiring PC makers to include its Internet Explorer browsing software on each computer sold with MS's Windows operating system.
In a Slate "" last year, Crook claimed that we were contending that the value of a company is the present value of its stream of future earnings and that such a contention was false.
A new biography of Billy Tipton--an obscure jazzman who was revealed, only at death, to have been a jazzwoman--elevates its subject into the "pantheon of legendary women who have successfully passed as men" (Holly Brubach, the New York Times Book Review ). Middlebrook, a professor at Stanford, uses Tipton to support the postmodernist contention that gender is a historic construction, but critics mostly wax prurient.
It might be concluded that the water model is robust, while the chloroform model is ill-parameterized, although the AMSOL literature on solvation [ 18 ] gives little basis for this contention.