Word: contender
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...land claims, of which half a dozen are pending on the Eastern seaboard alone. A total of 350,000 acres has been claimed by the Wampanoags in Massachusetts, the Pequots and Schaghticokes in Connecticut, the Narragansetts in Rhode Island, the Oneidas in New York. The Catawbas of South Carolina contend they are entitled to 144,000 acres that embrace the cities of Rock Hill and Fort Mill. The roll call of litigant tribes is like a Whitmanesque iteration: Miccosukee, Sioux, Cheyenne, Chippewa. Seven Oklahoma tribes-Kaw, Ponca, Tonkawa, Pawnee, Otoe, Osage, Creek-are shaping up a suit to assert...
...most of the current cases, the Indians do not contend that the property they claim was taken by force or fraud. Instead, they argue that certain voluntary transfers of their land after 1790 never received the congressional ratification required by the old Non-intercourse Act. Because congressional approval is definitely required, and the lack of it is easily proved, the Justice Department has concluded that the Indians have a solid case...
...whatever reassurance it may be worth, a surprising number of energy experts questioned by TIME correspondents around the nation contend that it really is not necessary for Carter and Schlesinger to get every detail of the energy program right at the outset. The prime essential, in their view, is to convince the public and Congress that a real crisis exists, and that the Government is genuinely moving to meet it. Passage of even an inadequate energy program, they think, will be an indispensable plus; mistakes and errors can be corrected later, once momentum is established...
Some surgeons contend that there is a possibility, admittedly slight, that the radiation itself could cause future cancer. They argue, as the British Medical Journal recently said, that "cure is more important than contour." Yet Pierquin insists that for certain women between the ages of 40 and 50, there are particularly important aesthetic and psychological reasons for choosing radiation implants. As he explains it: "This is when the woman knows she is growing older and starting to lose her femininity, her power for seduction. The fact that she might undergo mutilation at this stage can be a catastrophe...
Posting a record of that caliber is a pretty stiff order, considering the heavy schedule confronting the Crimson. In the Ivy League, Harvard must face Cornell, which merely went 16-0 and won the National Championship last year, along with perennial contenders Penn, Brown and Princeton. Outside the conference, the stickmen must contend with college-division powers C.W. Post and Adelphi, as well as UMass, which as 17 seniors back from the team that blasted Harvard last year. Hofstra, a squad that made the top ten last spring and edged the Crimson on Long Island, 11-7, is also...