Word: contend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Needed: ESP. A dispute about ticket-price increases by the 26 professional football teams has reached the federal courts, where the Government is suing the Atlanta Falcons in a test case. The teams contend that the increase is legal because it was posted before the freeze. The Government points out that the first games to which the higher prices apply were played during the freeze...
...right to choose a specific public school for their children, but it is even more doubtful that they should be forced by law to have their offspring bused where their safety is endangered or where they will demonstrably suffer along educational lines. That happens less often than alarmists contend. When it does, both whites and blacks have some justification for abandoning the public schools. A far better solution, obviously, would be to work together for better schools everywhere...
Apart from the psychological impact of the U.N. China vote, the Senate rejection of aid hinged on longer-range considerations, including: THE WAR. Critics of the Administration's Indochina policies contend that foreign aid has been the forerunner of U.S. military involvement, and despite the Nixon Doctrine, this could happen again. They were sharply opposed, for example, to the inclusion of $341 million in aid to sustain the shaky government of Premier Lon Nol in Cambodia. They were also angered at the Administration's all-out and successful effort to defeat the Cooper-Church amendment, which would have...
...Scary Thing. Black businesswomen often contend that the toughest prejudice that they face is not racist but sexist. Rosanna Wright, 30, president of Wright-Edlen Advertising Inc. in Los Angeles, takes the most optimistic view. "White men find it easier to work with a black woman than with a black man," she says. "They don't expect women to succeed, so they figure that they might as well help us along. Still, it's a struggle." Adds Shirley Barnes Kulunda, an account executive with Manhattan's J. Walter Thompson ad agency: "When white businessmen look...
Isaacs, Nash and Vigier are asking the Corporation to terminate Kilbridge's appointment as dean of the GSD. They contend that he has tried--through discussion and plans with students, faculty, members of the School's Visiting Committee and President Pusey--to place himself in control of the Planning Department since his appointment as dean...