Word: contend
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There have been suggestions in the London press that Al Fayed encouraged his son to court Diana as a way to get back--or, as the Independent put it, "cock a snook"--at the British Establishment. Nothing would have made him happier, some royal watchers contend, than for his son to become stepfather to the future King of England. Dodi and Diana's liaison reportedly began when the elder Al Fayed invited the princess and her two sons to vacation with his family at his villa in St.-Tropez. Adnan Khashoggi told a Saudi newspaper last month, "We welcome Diana...
...Though he had received special security driving training from Mercedes-Benz, medical experts say that Paul could have been drunk enough to stagger and have blurred vision. At the moment of the crash, he had to contend with driving an unwieldy, armored Mercedes at speeds more than triple the posted 30 mph limit ? all the while being pursued by paparazzi on motor scooters. When the car entered the 660-ft. tunnel on the Place de l'Alma, investigators say, it struck the concrete divider that separates the eastbound lanes from the westbound and apparently cartwheeled, overturning, then spinning nearly...
...attorney who filed a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit for 10,000 Holocaust victims and heirs that bought insurance from 16 European firms during World War II ? and contend their claims were denied ? says the case's first hearing will convene Wednesday in New York...
...types of rental property; and a fourth, of 28%, for such collectibles as rare coins. The G.O.P. also wants capital gains to be indexed for inflation--that is, the taxable gain would be reduced by the amount that prices had risen over the life of the investment. Treasury officials contend they would be forced to erect a whole new bureaucratic apparatus of agents, forms and experts to police the change. The changes could tempt investors to divert money into unproductive investments that nonetheless yield lightly taxed capital gains, like the half-empty office buildings that sprouted before the 1986 reform...
Anthropologists have long known that modern man and the brawny, heavier-browed creatures known as Neanderthals coexisted on the planet for tens of thousands of years. What they don't know is how the two species got along. Did they interbreed, as some scientists contend, producing among their descendants the people who now populate Europe? Or did they compete for food and shelter, with Neanderthals eventually losing the struggle and disappearing for good 30,000 years...