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...contract, the construction unions contend, violates a University agreement to distribute more construction jobs to unionized firms...
During the rectification movement of 1957, when citizens were urged to "let a hundred schools of thought contend," a colleague of Shaolong's innocently implicates him in criticism of their work conditions, and when the official policy reverts back to thought control, Shaolong is banished to a labor camp, later to be killed by a falling tree. Tietou's uncle is going blind, and Uncle's girlfriend, star of an army theater troupe, is sent to jail because she refuses an order to have sex with political leaders. Shujuan's second husband (Li Xuejian) dies from a liver ailment aggravated...
There are those who would contend that allowing more students into medical school decreases the quality of the physician pool. But that's ridiculous. It's the equivalent of saying that today's medical students--selected from a highly competitive field of candidates, two-thirds of whom weren't accepted anywhere--will make better physicians than those who applied in a less competitive era, such as that of two decades...
...young team," Assistant Coach Warren Smith said. "It has been a varsity sport for just a year, so it's a building process. We're much stronger than we were last spring. Hopefully, we'll be able to contend soon and do something with this young team...
Also, Bragg says Black students must contend with charges that they are at the College because of affirmative action...