Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saddam's aggression has given new ammunition to skeptics who contend that, Soviet threat or no Soviet threat, the U.S. needs every high-tech weapon system it can develop. The Pentagon budget will still be cut, but perhaps by as little as $10 billion, obliterating any chance that a substantial peace dividend will help relieve pressure on the government deficit. "Every politician will cite the gulf crisis as a justification for his favorite weapon," says Lawrence Korb, a former Pentagon official now at the Brookings Institution in Washington. For example, Senator Robert Dole has already argued that Iraq's move...
...post-Vietnam era, reporters covering the gulf crisis must contend with a long list of Pentagon rules...
...often shuffles along the sidewalks of his Greenwich Village neighborhood dressed in a bathrobe and slippers and babbling to himself. Vincent (Chin) Gigante, 62, looks as if he can barely attend to his own affairs, much less oversee the country's most powerful Mob family. His lawyers contend that Chin, a former glass-jawed prizefighter (hence the nickname), is mentally ill. But federal agents believe his behavior is an act designed to avoid prosecution. Recalls John Pritchard, a former FBI supervisor: "Once in 1985 I saw Gigante walk outdoors in a bathrobe. He climbed into a car, and several blocks...
...owned by Toronto's Reichmann brothers. A spokesman for O&Y confirms that Cirillo was employed as a "laborer" for eight months in 1986 at the site of the World Financial Center in Manhattan but was "laid off for lack of work." Cirillo is far from unemployed, crime fighters contend, since Gigante may be bogged down in court for some time. As Cirillo's friends down at the fish market would say, if they were talking: the underworld may soon be his oyster...
...intelligent filmmaker whenever he remains behind the camera, maintains that films about blacks should be directed by blacks (what does this mean for The Bear, one wonders, or for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?). Lee in turn becomes an irresistible target for charges of anti-Semitism. And others contend that Marion Barry is being hounded because he is black, as if to suggest that he be excused because he is black...