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...stake. Proponents insist that the SSC is necessary to keep the U.S. in the forefront of particle-physics research. Americans dominated the field from the mid-1940s to the 1970s, but Europe's CERN started stealing much of the glory in the 1980s. Without the SSC, its proponents contend, many of the best American physicists will emigrate to Europe. In fact, the brain drain has already begun: last year, for the first time, the number of American experimenters working at CERN surpassed the total number of scientists from CERN's 14 member countries who had moved to U.S. research centers...
...Estonians contend that, technically speaking, they are not seceding. They are simply restoring the sovereignty that Moscow guaranteed them "unconditionally and for all time" in 1920 -- then violated under the terms of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which led to Stalin's annexation of the Baltics. Estonian legislators want the issue of independence placed on the agenda for a Helsinki conference that Gorbachev has proposed to lay the foundation for his much touted "common European home." Legalists in Tallinn cite the Austrian State Treaty of 1955, which guaranteed the country's neutrality in exchange for the withdrawal of Soviet troops...
...their part, the major credit agencies contend that Williams overstates the importance of minor inaccuracies in consumer records. The agencies maintain that somewhat out-of-date or incomplete information does not necessarily hurt a consumer's chances of getting a loan. "A credit report is just a snapshot," says Barry Connelly, senior vice president of Associated Credit Bureaus, an industry group. "What consumers fail to understand is that credit is based on history, not on how you are this moment, this...
Some experts view Lynch's departure as a by-product of Magellan's astounding success. They contend that the fund had become so large and unwieldy that it was no longer possible for Lynch to outperform the market as consistently as he once had. Says Maurice Weiner, a Florida-based investor who sits on the board of a mutual fund: " Every time you add another dollar to manage, you are increasing the odds against...
Inaugurated three weeks ago, Collor used the trip to signal that he will make environmental reform one of his administration's major goals. But pro- Indian groups contend that Collor must go much further and ban all miners from the Amazon. Says Claudia Andujar, an Indian-rights activist: "The cancer is still in the area. The miners will return and destroy more forests, pollute more rivers and kill more Indians...