Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Canandaigua winery. The claim rings true, for Cisco's alcohol content is 20%, almost twice that of most wines and four times that of wine coolers. A growing number of health and consumer groups are asking Canandaigua to recall all bottles until the packaging and marketing are revamped. Critics contend that Cisco's screw-top bottles, fruit flavors and availability in many convenience stores create the impression that the product is akin to wine coolers. Canandaigua insists that customers know Cisco is different from a wine cooler because it is more expensive and is sold in individual bottles rather than...
...kingdom, subjects petition the royals for favors; they might, for example, ask for money to send a sick relative abroad for medical treatment or for the mediation of a land dispute. In a complex and modern society, a handful of senior princes, no matter how conscientious, cannot possibly contend with the myriad demands of their subjects. Nonetheless, even the kingdom's small knot of reformists do not want to depose the House of Saud. "The royal family is important for the stability of the country," says a liberal intellectual. "But we do want a parliament...
...entitle her to live out her final days in a quiet, dignified fashion. But circumstances conspire against graceful surrender. Separated by an ocean from her only child, she has no one to provide the solace and daughterly ministrations she longs for. At the same time, she is forced to contend with the racial cancer that is eating the society that surrounds her, stripping even its youngest members of their capacity to care, feel or abide by the most basic rules of human decency...
...absorbing excess rubles from the Soviet economy by selling back state-owned assets to the public. In addition, Gorbachev last week raised the idea of devaluing the official exchange rate for the ruble, from $1.66 all the way down to 50 cents. Economists for the Gorbachev-Yeltsin commission contend that once sufficient amounts of money have been pulled out of circulation, prices can be liberalized, since real market forces will operate to keep them stable. Unlike the Poles, argues Gorbachev economic adviser Nikolai Petrakov, "Soviet citizens would rather stand in long lines than confront a rise in prices...
Church officials say Sipe's figures are much too high, arguing that his findings are skewed because half the priests in his study were already in therapy. Most priests successfully channel their sexual feelings into love for their congregations, they contend. "This can provide a type of fulfillment, just as married men and women achieve fulfillment," says Father Peter Dora of the Atlanta archdiocese. But officials acknowledge that the Catholic hierarchy is increasingly concerned about sexually straying priests...