Word: contends
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While the deal seems a steal by current New York City prices, the building's ( unknown new owner must contend with a pre-existing leasing arrangement that will lock in the rates on Empire State Building office space for decades to come...
Although Brown and Cornell nicely played into Harvard's hands, the Crimson (10-2-0 overall) still had to contend with Dartmouth. The Big Green (4-9, 1-5 Ivy) arrived at Cumnock field after shutting out Cornell 2-0 the previous weekend, and, given the nature of this Ivy season, no one could be sure Dartmouth would not pull another caper...
...smorgasbord of television programming, including shows already carried by cable systems and broadcast stations. The programs would be transmitted via a so-called video dial tone, carried over fiber-optic cable, which would cost the phone companies billions of dollars to install. Defending their turf, cable-TV operators contend that the phone companies would have an unfair advantage because they could subsidize their video service with profits from their phone business...
Many members of the United Mine Workers of America contend that the MSHA has favored industry for a decade. They point out that the government agency has refused to publish its list of mines considered the nation's most dangerous -- once dubbed the "high-hazard list." The MSHA's chief, William Tattersall, a former coal-industry lobbyist, says his agency aggressively enforces the law. He estimates that most injuries occur because of momentary inattentiveness on the part of miners. Tattersall is bluntly pragmatic about mining's risks, economic and otherwise. He says, "The best advice you can give your children...
...Yeltsin contends that the presidential envoys are needed to override Communist apparatchiks who still control many localities and would otherwise block any changes. More generally, his supporters contend that Yeltsin, faced with the surviving party apparatus and a divided, if not splintered, parliament, must in effect initiate reforms by decree. But to opponents the * dispatch of the namestniki smacks of an old czarist practice. The parliament consequently wants them replaced by locally elected administrators; Yeltsin fears that many of those elected will be Communists, who are better organized than the democrats. Parliament refuses to postpone local elections, Yeltsin has vetoed...