Word: contend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reality, Harvard must convert on these, the lighter games on the Ivy slate, if it is to contend with the nationally-ranked Princeton Tigers for the league crown and the NCAA tournament's automatic...
Ages ago, when my husband and I wanted to start a family, we had the Rh factor, not infertility problems, to contend with. It was a pretty big deal back then. But we wanted four kids. What to do? Simple. Have one child biologically and adopt three. Who cares whom they look like or what color they are? My kids are now 30, 28, 25 and 22. To me, they're all my flesh and blood. I've never given a second thought to the fact that some are adopted. Ups and downs? Naturally. But I'm their...
...could also contend that the film's drawn-out weightiness, its sense of bleakness and numbing repetition, is a deliberate goal. After all, this is a film about the horrors of war and of persecution, and forcing the viewers to share in the deliberately dehumanizing environment forced upon the camps' victims could be--in theory--a powerful aesthetic effect...
...death penalty violates our Eighth Amendment right to be free from 'cruel and unusual punishment.'" Some legal scholars contend that state execution can be considered a form of 'cruel and unusual punishment' and is therefore unconstitutional. They argue, on moral grounds, that a society that puts its members to death is barbaric and that barbarism is not consonant with our constitution...
...Even if you're lucky enough to slot in these categories, however, you still have violence, suicide, tobacco and HIV to contend with. All are expected to shoot up the cause-of-death charts in the next century. Best not to tell your life insurance company just...