Word: contender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studies exist to tell researchers whether or not the panic is warranted. Some experts contend that HEW's warning was based on insufficient data. One specialist at the National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta pointed out that there were as yet no verified reports of illness in the U.S. due to paraquat-sprayed grass. Some experts speculated that there might be less harm in smoking paraquat than in swallowing the chemical in liquid form. "There's no doubt that paraquat causes pulmonary fibrosis when taken orally," observes a California lung physiologist, Dr. Jeff Golden, "but there...
Adversary relationship is a lawyer's phrase, but it's doubtful whether Nixon the lawyer ever really understood the moral philosophy behind it. In principle, justice is served and truth is most effectively discovered when two sides-one doing its best to attack, the other to defend-contend in open court. Even the rascal, the murderer, the rapist is "entitled to his day in court." In practice, the idea clears the consciences of expensive lawyers who get rich defending the worst of clients or the most dubious practices of their best clients. Since a trial is combat, nearly...
...walkout is over and only quiet discontent remains. Powers had said he hoped the University would have more carpentry work by March 31, but that date passed with no change in workload. The carpenters still contend the University is using outside contractors; Harvard still denies it. It's been almost a month, and many skirmishes have passed without any resolutions being achieved. With time, the fire has burned down, but the ashes are still smoldering...
...figure as an excuse to cut federal aid, protest that Carter improperly counted $15 billion in "social insurance" funds that are used to pay pensions, workmen's compensation and temporary disability benefits. That money should not be figured as part of the surplus, the state officials contend, because it cannot be used in day-to-day operations...
...thrill of the Oscars, we contend, is all in the anticipation. The show itself ended just as it began. A pretty lousy...