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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.
If people are unhappy now--thanks to contentious, self-serving news writers who are more bent on garnering attention through controversy than they are through enlightenment--they are going to be miserable when they realize what they have done to themselves.
Do not let any bumptious, presumptious, officious, malicious or contentious reactionary socialist come between you and interfere to counteract the felicitary interprications of your marriage bed.
Until the United States can disaggregate, its entire China policy will be held hostage to the most contentious issue of the moment.
The book concludes in orthodox multiculturalism and a surprisingly bitter estimate of America's democratic potential: "America approached the century's end as fractured along social, racial, ethnic, economic, gender, and regional lines as it had been in all but a few moments in its history; with a culture so diverse and so contentious that it seemed to lack any coherence or shape; with declining faith in its government, its leaders, and its principal institutions."