Word: contender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Businessmen contend that OSHA's most pernicious habit is to sneak up on them unawares without search warrants, a practice that is drawing increasing scrutiny from the courts. Since last January, 18 state and federal court decisions have been handed down against the agency for violating the Fourth Amendment guarantee against unlawful search and seizure. A suit is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the agency's authority to make inspections without a warrant. There is plenty of evidence that such tactics simply make enforcement all the harder. Says William Kemp, a furniture manufacturer in Goldsboro...
...next month, or chooses someone else. That has become one of the burning questions for 1978, and it divides the TIME Board of Economists along strict liberal-conservative lines. Conservatives, though they are displeased that Burns so far has been unable to keep the money supply from growing rapidly, contend that he must remain as the nation's chief inflation fighter...
...here at Harvard. It will, hopefully, encourage many people, straight and gay, to confront their feelings and come to terms with them--so that there will be fewer gays going through the emotional gymnastics necessary to life in the closet and fewer paranoid and stereotype-ridden straight people to contend with while coming, and being...
...encouragement among hizzoners is limited indeed. The mayors contend that Carter has fallen short of his pledge to their annual conference in 1976, when he declared: "America's No. 1 economic problem is our cities, and I want to work with you to meet the problem of urban America." Griped Denver's McNichols: "We have no mayors involved in the Administration. We're out of things, and I think that's a mistake...
...struggling state-owned Computer Maintenance Corp. could service the IBM equipment in the country without difficulty; after all, that should not be beyond a country that has produced an atomic bomb, nuclear power plants and, even more to the point, 100 of its own computers. The Indians also contend that IBM's departure could open the way for competition among rival computer firms, domestic and foreign, anxious to see their products in the Indian market...