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The NYT , while noting that Bradley showed "a new persistence and aggressiveness" and that health care was a contentious issue, said the two candidates "agreed more than they disagreed."
Miller gets his most contentious in the Velvet Underground chapter, when he challenges critic David Fricke's statement that the Velvets were " 'exiled from the mainstream' ... greeted with " 'almost total rejection.' "
USAT says today's involvement of Rehnquist amounts to a "high noon showdown" between the Clinton administration and Kenneth Starr, and that the issue of Secret Service confidentiality is the most contentious issue yet in Starr's investigation of Lewinsky's relationship with Clinton.
From a longterm historical viewpoint, requests for GAO's services have never been higher, and we anticipate that this historic growth will continue as the Congress grapples with increasingly complex and contentious issues requiring greater contextual sophistication.
In his latest book, Enduring Love , this struggle to make sense of misfortune is an explicit enterprise, a contentious necessity for the novel's three main characters.