Word: contender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aides released a report of his last physical examination, in April, which showed no signs of coronary disease and a blood pressure of 120/80-a rate physicians consider excellent. He has a touch of arthritis in his right thumb and a minor respiratory allergy to pollen. Reagan's aides contend that the age issue has been exaggerated by the press, yet polls repeatedly show that it concerns many voters. Reagan has faced the problem mostly by joking about it. In a jab at Carter's collapse during a long jog, Reagan last week referred to the stiff race ahead...
Shouting against the windfall profits tax, oilmen tirelessly contend that higher earnings will motivate them to search harder for oil and gas. Sure enough, as oil profits have marched up this year, so has domestic exploration. Steel drilling rigs, eight and ten stories high, are rising at muddy, cluttered sites from the Rocky Mountain foothills to Louisiana's Cajun country. Although domestic production is not expected to rise in years ahead, the new activity will keep it higher than it otherwise might have been. And there is always the possibility, however slight, that oilmen may get lucky and strike...
...CAST, although generally competent, particularly warms to their roles during the last scene, which-appropriately enough for a law school audience--takes place in a courtroom. From an epic style in the earlier portion of the play. Brecht shifts nimbly to parable. Grusha must contend with the haughty mother over who will gain possession of the child. Azdak, the magistrate-rogue, played with animation by David Miller, gives the "chalk-circle test." Grusha lets go of Michael because she doesn't want to hurt him "I brought him up! Should I tear him apart...
...ludicrous to contend, as the administration does, that this constitutes "gross neglect of duties or other just cause," as is required in the faculty contract for firing professors. Such a stance by the university only serves to inflame tensions and provoke hostilities. Moreover, it is but one more example of the recalcitrance, intolerance, and mismanagement that has characterized Silber's administration. We urge B.U. to step back from this affront to academic freedom and to drop proceedings against the professors...
...agency, Powers believes, was badly served, as was the central figure in his narrative, Richard Helms, who headed the CIA from 1966 to 1973. A consummate professional, Helms was the proverbial man in the middle. His job was to furnish the best possible intelligence, and yet he had to contend with intense political pressures from the White House and the Pentagon. It was a high-wire act from which every CIA director has sooner or later tumbled...