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...merchants contend that if interchange fees are lowered, they would pass on the cost savings to consumers through lower prices for goods - at least that's the theory...
Tenenbaum and his legal team contend that his recent statements represent nothing more than an exercise of his basic rights...
...decry U.S. counterterrorist strikes in their country as a “violation of sovereignty” (apparently, contracting out assassination missions to third parties isn’t their preferred method), but these protests really boil down to wanting the missiles in their own hands. Soft-hearted lefties contend that drones take out innocent civilians along with targets. But justifiable as these concerns are, as tracking software grows more advanced and imaging resolution more clear, the purely mechanical aspect of unmanned warfare will take care of itself...
...return to finish the job another day. But in practice, a smaller bill would fall far short of covering the estimated 45 million or so uninsured. While that would save the federal Treasury money in the short run, health-care experts warn it would make it impossible to contend with the larger forces that are driving up health-care costs and burdening the economy as a whole. For instance, the uninsured would continue to show up for treatment in the expensive setting of hospital emergency rooms, and those hospitals would continue to shift those costs onto their paying patients...
...other Chinese provinces will adhere to the regulations and grow different teas under new names. The new standards, for example, shut out tea producers in neighboring Guangdong province, who claim that the tea they process is as authentic - perhaps even more so - than Yunnan's. Guangdong tea makers contend that it was Pearl River traders, not Yunnan farmers, that originally perfected Puer. Zheng Mukun, a tea master from Guangdong, says the province's claim dates to the Qing dynasty, when tightly packed leaves were fermented over the course of the three-month journey, by horse, from Kunming to Guangzhou...