Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mainstream economist believes that the kind of full-blown protectionist response demonstrated by Los Angeles last week would do anything beyond saving some jobs in the short run. Ultimately, most contend, consumers would pay the price of a trade war, with scarcer and more expensive imports...
...Liberals contend that Clinton inherited a regressive tax structure (it presses harder on the poor than on the well-off) and made it more regressive by raising sales taxes while largely leaving alone income and business levies. Clinton replies, correctly, that the state constitution requires a nearly unobtainable 75% vote of the legislature to raise any tax other than the sales levy and, more dubiously, that he sought to change that and failed (critics say he did not make anywhere near the effort required). Characteristically, though, he adds, "What I've tried to do is to promote tax reform...
...despite similar accounts from hundreds of women, scientists have yet to prove conclusively that implants are responsible for their woes. Critics of last week's FDA ruling, including many doctors, contend that the agency may have needlessly raised women's fears before convincing evidence was in. Cole feels that despite the court order, Kessler should have released the new information to the medical community before calling the moratorium. "We're getting hundreds of calls from women who want to know what this new information is, what it means," he said, adding that some women may avoid getting suspicious breast lumps...
...American public-education system gets equally dismal grades when compared with much of Europe's and Japan's. Harvard's Robert Reich and other economists contend that in the next decade, the skills of a country's work force will be a major determinant of its competitiveness in the world. Some experts argue that all who qualify academically should have access to a college or a vocational-training program, even if they lack the money for tuition. Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton suggests that needy students could pay for their education by performing some kind of public service after they graduate...
Officials of the Massachusetts and Washington programs see such criticism as % unfounded. The programs, they say, are designed only to create jobs. If new competition is the by-product, the officials contend, what right-thinking capitalist can argue with that? And while starting a business cannot be a cure-all for U.S. joblessness, it offers at least some out-of-work Americans an opportunity to trade an unemployment check for a paycheck...