Word: contends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another question is how to gather, store, translate and distribute the raw data developed during the project. NASA critics contend that the agency now has reams of information from space missions that no one ever examines, and the Earth Observing System could require major new storage facilities consuming about 60% of the mission's budget. "Creating a library is a huge task in itself," says Congressman Bob Traxler of Michigan, in whose district part of the library is to be built...
...capabilities since the early 1960s. He directed operations at the Osirak reactor until an Israeli raid destroyed it in 1981, and he later served as senior technician for the Tarmiya and Sharqat pilot plants, centerpieces of what U.N. investigators say was an advanced nuclear weapons program. U.S. government sources contend that under Ja'afer's supervision, Saddam's nuclear program got sizable infusions of technology from Beijing...
...practices of B.C.C.I., including its attempts to cover up its losses, may have been beyond the pale. But they view such legerdemain as a crude attempt to comply with Western regulators' demands for acceptable profit and loss statements. U.S. and British authorities would naturally scoff at that explanation. They contend that B.C.C.I. flourished as a criminal enterprise largely because it was carefully constructed to take advantage of such tax havens as Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands, which provide virtually no regulation...
...Central Committee passed a resolution last week condemning the Yeltsin decree. Gorbachev also claimed that he would oppose any moves against local party cells by "all constitutional means." But hard-liners like Sergeyev suspect the President will betray them. They contend that Gorbachev wants the issue to be decided by the Committee for Constitutional Compliance, which rules on the constitutionality of laws, rather than veto the decree himself and risk alienating Yeltsin. No matter what the Kremlin does, the Russians are bound to go ahead with plans to kick party functionaries out of factories...
Some American blacks and liberals nonetheless denounced Bush's action as premature, an opinion also voiced by A.N.C. leader Nelson Mandela. The opponents contend, correctly, that South Africa is still far from multiracial democracy. Substantive negotiations on a new constitution that would permit blacks to vote and share in governing the country have not even begun. The critics argue that without the continued pressure of international sanctions, full equality will never come...