Word: contender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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General Dynamics executives contend that they can fulfill the contract only at a heavy loss because the Navy kept changing its mind about what it wanted...
Champions of the core plan, including Harvard President Derek Bok, contend that students need more guidance in what they study. Says Government Professor Michael Walzer: "We can't function as a nutritionist who tells his patients that they are very intelligent and that there's a supermarket around the corner." Proponents also argue that even though the new requirements are more rigid than existing ones, they would still fill only a quarter of an undergraduate's schedule, the same as in the present system. That would leave the equivalent of two years for a major area...
...current incarnation of this well-intentioned but warped effort was sponsored by Senators Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and McLellan, who died last year. Many observers contend that Kennedy co-sponsored the bill, an obvious attempt at compromise, despite its repressive sections in a self-interested maneuver for the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Unfortunately, Senator James O. Eastland (D-Miss.), the long-time chairman of that committee, decided not to retire, leaving Kennedy in the lurch with a bill he will have to see through to the bitter end. Kennedy has apparently pushed the bill through the Senate...
Over 75 workers in a pesticide plant at Hopewell, Virginia have been contaminated with the pesticide Kepone. Many are dying; fortunately, many others may recover. Experts contend the poison has leaked out of the plant, into the surrounding James River basin. Residents of towns along the river have consumed fish from the James over the years...
...contend that until this inseparability is recognized, until students are no longer treated merely as consumers of educational services, until students stop getting lip service concerning their involvement on University policy, there is a continued need for more and better student organization and government...