Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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City officials contend that the increase was necessary because the present fee, between $2800 to $4800 a year depending on the type of liquor sold, has not kept pace with rising administrative costs...
...dispute turned into an old-fashioned brawl. Strikers have hurled rocks and bottles at News delivery trucks and warned dealers against selling the paper. Distribution may be management's weakest point. While the News has been printing more than 1 million papers a day, strikers contend that only a few hundred thousand have been reaching newsstands. The paper even resorted to handing out 200,000 free copies a day on the street...
...officials deny that the SATs propagate inequity and reflect bias. The fact that upper-income whites score higher than lower-income minorities, they contend, reflects society's imbalances, not the exams'. ETS notes that 400 people of varying backgrounds check every SAT question during 10 review stages and eliminate any that are found to be biased. "To say these tests are biased because results vary," says Gary Saretzky, chief of ETS's sensitivity-review process, "is like blaming the thermometer for the fever...
SOME in the media would even contend, justifiably, that the Silber people have it all backwards. The candidate prided himself on the bluntness of his message, the disingenuity with which he attacked such problems as crime (refusing to give a speech in Dorcester to "a bunch of crack addicts") and health care (disputing the need for lengthy and fruitless hospital stays for the elderly) and the feminist movement (blaming working women for leading to the disruption of family unity...
Although some critics contend that Silber couldnever bring liberals back into the fold, Rooseveltdiscounted any further internal strife that mightresult from his appointment as chair...