Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Direct-mail practitioners counter that their product is the solution, not the problem. Mail-order shopping helps the environment, they argue, by keeping consumers out of cars, saving gas and motor oil and reducing air pollution. On the issue of privacy, they contend that direct mail is the least intrusive way to reach consumers. "It's not like a commercial where you have to wait a whole minute for the evening news to continue, or a billboard that blocks the scenery, or the telephone call that gets you out of the bathtub," says copywriting maestro Bill Jayme of Sonoma, Calif...
...debt can make firms less competitive. Since RJR Nabisco's leveraged buyout in late 1988, in which the corporation assumed some $25 billion in debt, the company has lost market share to rival Philip Morris because RJR's management is so absorbed with managing the huge LBO, many analysts contend. In addition, loan payments, which average 30% of corporate cash flow, often divert money away from more productive pursuits, including research, advertising and capital spending. While Phillips Petroleum was digging out from under its $9 billion debt, the corporation had to pass up several opportunities to acquire crude-oil reserves...
...defeated almost 2 to 1. A second measure, Forests Forever, designed to ban clear-cutting and save old-growth forests and redwoods, lost by a narrower margin. In part they fell victim to a backlash against the sheer number of ballot propositions -- 28 in all -- that Californians had to contend with in the voting booth. "They voted no on everything," laments Lynn Sadler, campaign director for Forests Forever. Big Green was a ballot buster all by itself, a 16,000-word laundry list of aims, including a ban on cancer-causing pesticides, a phase-out of chemicals that deplete...
...Washington also seems genuinely undecided on some points, notably when and on what evidence it might conclude that the embargo has failed and war should be the next step. Some experts insist that the sanctions are working; others contend it will take months to a year or more before their effect is felt. Who really knows? And are they saying what they know...
...even the top sailors in the region could contend with this weekend's powerful winds, as both the coed and women's Atlantic Coast Championships were cancelled last weekend after a host of early boats capsized...