Word: contender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite these ingredients of fictional disaster-plus a temptation to relate everything to "feminism"-A Fine Romance deserves a reading. Seton makes such charming, well-written excuses for her clichés: "There's an inherent plotlessness one has to contend with in the lives of civilized people, you see. Their marriages, divorces, are muted, cerebral. It puts a heavy burden on love affairs, do you see? They're the only credible climax left...
...supplying the nation's voracious demand for energy have helped the U.S. to become the most advanced country on earth. Yet many Americans have come to view the industry with suspicion, especially since the rapid runup in oil prices that followed the 1973 Arab oil embargo. Critics contend that the major companies' total control of all aspects of their business, from wellhead to gas pump, has given the industry too much power to manipulate supplies and prices and reap excessive profits at the expense of consumers. During the past year or so, the efforts of congressional Democrats...
Glutted Market. The oil companies, backed by the Administration, contend that they are competitive and point out, correctly, that there is far less concentration of market power in oil than in autos, steel, aluminum and other fields. A Treasury Department study released last week asserts that divestiture would hamper the industry's efficiency, lessen exploration and development of new wells, increase the nation's dependence on costly foreign oil and drive up prices. Oilmen agree that if more companies were bidding vigorously for Middle East oil, prices might drop somewhat−if there was a glutted market...
Thus, however much Miki tries to take his case to the public, he still has the faction leaders to contend with. After all, he benefited from sealed-room politics in 1974, when the L.D.P. bosses, rocked by scandal, and factionalism, turned to him as a compromise candidate to succeed the disgraced Tanaka. Now, too, compromise could be the key concept. One possible outcome of the entire affair: party leaders would agree to let Miki stay in office until the Lockheed investigation is concluded-but only if he agrees to step down as Premier before the general elections...
...Harvard community who feel that affirmative action is an unjust, racist and sexist practice and I would like to thank Mr. Ferrara for speaking out on our behalf. It is all too easy to let oneself be intimidated by the moralistic self-righteousness of minority-group spokesmen who angrily contend that affirmative action is the only way to end supposed biases in school admission and hiring policies. Clearly, affirmative action is a blatant form of racism, no less reprehensible than that practiced by right-wing extremists such as the Ku Klux Klan. It is just as despicable, unfair, and undesirable...