Word: contend
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...Critics contend that these activities have contributed to political, economic and environmental instability in Irian Jaya...
Another major decision facing students who take the MCAT is whether they should sweat it out and take the exam the summer before their junior year in college, or whether they should take it in the spring before they apply to medical school--when they must contend with a full course load and extracirriculars...
Cynics may contend that doctors mainly want to protect their incomes by preventing HMOs from lowering capitation (per patient) payments. In California, where HMOs are most dominant, the average earnings of a primary-care physician dropped from...
This matter is no joke. Congressional investigators quoted in The New York Times contend that Cabrera's money was solicited by a Democratic fundraiser--in Havana. And, these sources say, Cabrera had a wallet photo of himself with none other than chief dictator Castro at the time of his most recent arrest, in which he was charged with smuggling 3,000 pounds of cocaine into the country through the Florida Keys...
...champions of the amendment contend they set the same standard for homosexuals and heterosexuals: no sex outside wedlock. But its opponents point out a double standard: the church does not allow monogamous, same-sex couples to marry. "I feel like my church has slapped me in the face," says Scott Anderson, co-moderator of Presbyterians for Lesbian and Gay Concerns. "This is an action rooted in fear and not in love." Anderson had been pastor of the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Sacramento, California, until members of his congregation, opposed to some of his policies, "outed...