Word: contends
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...legacy policy is unjust as the editors contend, then the primary issue is elitism, not the differential impact on minorities. Unless legacy tips are racially biased, they will eventually also work in favor of children of minority alumni. Considering the experiences of Jewish students, there is no reason to believe that a previously oppressed group will be discriminated against by legacy policy. Over time, then, it does not discriminate racially...
...Bush Administration has avoided using the R word, which officially is defined as six months of economic contraction. "We don't believe we're in a recession right now," White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said two weeks ago. But many economists contend that the slump actually began last summer. "The economy was headed toward a recession before Iraq invaded Kuwait," says Allen Sinai, chief economist for the consulting firm Boston Company Economic Advisors. "The invasion was just the nail in the coffin." Richard Hoey, chief U.S. economist for the British investment firm Barclays de Zoete Wedd, concurs: "Only the severity...
...whole, American officials contend that the coalition so far has held together remarkably well. They note, for example, that sanctions usually begin to break down rather quickly but that the current alliance has drawn the embargo against Iraq ever tighter. The job, however, is far from done. The U.S. may have to hold the coalition together for months or even years, either to wage effective war against Iraq or to contain a Saddam Hussein who would remain a menace even after a withdrawal from Kuwait. That is a job that will guarantee continuing headaches. But there is no alternative...
...begin with, what exactly is "assassination"? Since the Executive Order offers no definition, presumably standard general concepts would apply. The favorite definition of Russell Bruemmer, former general counsel of the CIA, is "the premeditated killing of a specifically targeted individual for political purposes." He and others contend, however, that such killing is sometimes allowed under international...
Some experts further argue that an indirect hit on Saddam could be justified in situations short of general war. They contend that terrorism can be viewed as a species of armed attack, legitimizing self-defense in the form of military action against terrorists and their sponsors. That was the justification for the 1986 U.S. air raid against Libya, during which planes hit several places where Muammar Gaddafi was known to have lived. Planners insisted that they were not targeting Gaddafi -- that might have been a bit too close to assassination -- but aiming at terrorist command-and-control centers. If Gaddafi...