Word: contended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great majority of retailers contend that seven-day selling is indefensible in the face of nationwide pressure for a four-day week. While small businessmen say they are forced to open Sundays to meet low-margin chain-store competition, many chain operators have found that Sunday volume has become too big to jettison. A big Arkansas supermarket operator who returned to the six-day week found that receipts dropped 40%. In Indianapolis, after agreeing to close on Sundays, the Kroger chain was forced to reopen nine of its 16 markets...
Critics of NSA contend that the body is controlled from the top by a tight core of professional student legislators, and that Harvard plays a very minor role in policy decisions...
Racial Discrimination must be fought everywhere because "the church is committed by its very nature to the establishment of a human society in which discrimination based on race or color will no longer exist." According to the conference's "earnest desire," Methodists should "initiate, contend for and foster, within their own societies, a genuine and allinclusive fellowship...
Viewing the statistics, some businessmen contend cheerfully that a constantly increasing population, the vast new opportunities unlocked by the atom, and the whole new field of electronics all help to assure continued high employment and demand for goods. But Martin contends that the risk of boom and bust is too dangerous, since the FRB is powerless to reverse full-scale depression. It takes more than easy credit to persuade a businessman to turn out goods for which there is no market. Argues Martin: "The Federal Reserve cannot turn the economy off and on like a faucet. But we can minimize...
Some admen contend that the soft-sell approach can succeed only in limited luxury-class markets, that keenly competitive mass-marketed goods still demand fact-filled, reason-why copy. Says an old Madison Avenue slogan: "The more you tell, the more you sell." On the other hand, understated advertising has successfully sold many items, from dogfood to diapers, in mass-market fields where there is little discernible difference between competing products. Instead of lecturing readers on engine-ping, Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) diverts them with spaceship cartoons. George Gobel's fey, sophisticated humor has helped to build Dial soap...