Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robert Maxwell may be resting in peace in an Israeli cemetery, but the rumors about how he met his demise refuse to die down. Spanish investigators contend that Maxwell suffered a heart attack, but last week's revelations that $767 million mysteriously disappeared from a pair of Maxwell operations during the months leading up to his death have revived the speculation. There are three schools of tabloid-style musings...
...issues involved are not mere differences of philosophy; in the inner cities especially, the debate is deeply practical. Religious groups contend that moral and spiritual teaching can strengthen their efforts in prevention of teen pregnancy and drug abuse, as well as health services, tutoring and % other social services, and that such groups can perform those tasks more cheaply and humanely than government agencies...
Sneddon, however, has been forced to contend with injury again. Two bulging disks in his back--eerily similar to the injury that kept star forward John Weisbrod out of action last year--kept Sneddon out of the last two games...
...common dining room talk (especially including the eat-ins) have featured gays and lesbians speaking about how happy they really are. In fact, the gay community here and elsewhere always makes such an effort to publicize that they really, really, are happy, despite what "homophobes" like me may contend...
...addition to dealing with Brown, Harvard has to contend again with being on the road, where it lost 12 of 15 games last season...