Word: contend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Maine and St. Lawrence, two more of last year's surprises, should both contend. The Black Bears finished with the fifth-best record in the converence last year, but lost All-American forward Gary Conn and goalie Jeff Nord (now with the St. Louis Blues) to graduation. The Larries faded after a quick start and missed the playoffs, but have everybody back including crack goalie Gary Laskoski...
...will take up the slack? Conservatives, pointing out that nongovernmental groups financed legal services in earlier times, contend that private practitioners can represent clients now served by poverty lawyers. The A.B.A. insists that the demand for services is too great and that most lawyers are inexperienced in the types of cases that legal services attorneys specialize in. As for local government support, states and cities are hardly likely to dip deeper into their own pinched purses, especially not to fund groups that are often suing them. Jim Martin, director of the West Virginia program, is pressing his state legislature...
...challenge. The opportunity was that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party was so badly riven by the missile issue that it might not be able to retain power until the national elections scheduled for 1984. The challenge was that the Christian Democrats would have to contend with the widespread appeal of the "peace" movement in West Germany without compromising their basic stand for a strong military and the firm support of NATO...
Scientists give us 500,000,000 years or more before the sun grows big enough to sautee mankind; that is, they add, unless we do the job first. An all-out nuclear war, most rational observers contend, might well make the species extinct and would certainly end modern civilization. Now in that 500,000,000 years--longer than man has already been on this planet--many thousand ideologies will rise; many nations and races win power and lose it; and, one hopes, much progress toward true justice be made. Our goal, then, must be justice and freedom in our lifetime...
They say Marty Barrett is the player of the future, and that Dave Stapleton can play second base. But this kind of thing can't keep happening if a team wants to contend. The mystique is gone now, for Remy and for everyone, and if the Red Sox want players to stay they will have to come up with the money to sign them. And it is scary to think that Jim Rice and Carney Lansford do not have long-term contracts...