Word: contender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repel a Soviet invasion depends on reinforcements and supplies arriving from the U.S. after the fighting starts. Since airlifts can transport only a tiny fraction of this, the bulk of the critically important resupply could be sunk by Soviet submarines, land-based aircraft and surface vessels. To prevent this, contend Navy officers, U.S. warships, armed with antisubmarine and antimissile weapons, must escort supply convoys across the Atlantic. Not only is this naval capacity needed in case of all-out war, it could be required in some future Middle East crisis, for example, if the Soviet navy attempted to embargo...
Critics of the initiative, who include most leaders of state politics, business, labor and California's 1.5 million-member state and local bureaucracy, contend that it would lead to mass layoffs of teachers, police and firemen. Backers of Jarvis-Gann say that the warnings are preposterous and that the state is already running a $3.5 billion surplus that would soften the actual cutbacks to little more than moderate retrenchments...
...which no human sorrow can deprive them." Another section, clearly aimed at clerical activists, declares that "priests, monks and nuns should not under normal circumstances participate in political struggle." The theme of the Puebla conference is how to evangelize an increasingly urbanized society, but opponents of the draft document contend that it fails to reflect a key post-Vatican II teaching: evangelization is inseparable from social concern...
...Some contend that the most effective way to control terrorism is to cure the social conditions that inspire today's nihilism-such as unemployment (especially among the young) and a distant, insensitive bureaucratic government. Italian Sociologist Giovanni Statera argues that the alternative of "trying to shore up state institutions by passing repressive antiterrorist laws is like trying to cure a cancerous tumor with hot-water packs." Still, it remains to be seen whether efforts to eradicate economic injustice in a democratic manner would solve the present problem; it is not, after all, the have-nots who are taking...
...British, whose Doppler system is built by Plessey Co., Ltd., insist that the U.S. scanning beam is clearly inferior. They also contend that computer simulations done for the FAA at M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory were biased in favor of the American MLS. Some U.S. experts, including a former FAA administrator, John H. Shaffer, agree. But after technical presentations and demonstrations of both devices in Montreal, the ICAO experts voted 39 to 24 in favor of the American system. The U.S. scanning beam has won a crucial round in the quest for a prize that eventually may be worth...