Word: contender
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Since then, the department has disclosed the reports of over 60 companies. Fearful of the impact on Jewish customers and other supporters of Israel, many businessmen whose firms were named have cried foul; they contend they did no more than fill out routine questionnaires from Arab buyers. Generally, these questionnaires ask a company to certify that goods being exported to Arab countries were not made in Israel or shipped on blacklisted vessels. The Commerce Department itself noted that most of the firms involved "have in no way altered their business practices to gain Arab trade." Indeed, a company could truthfully...
Even if President Ford manages to defeat Jimmy Carter in today's election, he will still have to contend with a heavily Democratic Congress that should appear very similar to the one he has frequently attacked during the current campaign. Of the races for 33 Senate and 435 House seats up for election, only a handful provide the Republicans with any hope of changing the Congressional balance of power and regaining any of the seats they lost in the Democratic Congressional land-slide...
...addition to confronting Buckley out on the hustings, Moynihan has also had to contend with harassment from the Conservative party and Buckley's campaign forces. First, the Conservative Party asked the New York State Supreme Court to deny Moynihan the Liberal line on the ballot, contending that he had improperly and fraudulently obtained the nomination. Although the Court at first decided in the Conservatives' favor, the Moynihan forces appealed...
...NASL is not the WFL. If Sports Illustrated can be believed, soccer is "on the verge of becoming a major spectator sport." It has even had to contend with the infamous Sports Illustrated cover jinx...
Without its top three runners, the team had enough to contend with, but the weather added to its problems. "It was too dry and the team couldn't use the swim strokes they learned last week at the rainy Brown meet," Stowell said...