Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year, Dukakis will not have any primary opposition. But his old nemesis King, having recently jumped to the Republican Party, is a possible contender in the general election one year from now.
The view that the individual organism is the sole contender in the struggle for survival fails to explain how ants and other animals live in colonies, cooperating instead of competing among themselves.
"One of the things that came out of my Harvard education is the ability to handle pressure. We want to be going into next year a contender. We can't just be a 'w' for anyone anymore."
"We haven't tested the waters so much as wallowed in them," explains State Rep. Willian Galvin (D-Boston), a top contender for the seat and one of the more conservative candidates in the Democratic primary field.
In the Night Stalker case, technicians in Sacramento were still loading records from the old system into the new when the suspect print was lifted from an automobile linked to the killer. At the urgent request of police, four NEC programmers worked all night to finish the job. The following...