Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with $361 million in restitution ordered by courts, up 200% from 1987. A five-year extension of the statute of limitations, obtained last August, should help prosecutors. Even so, investigators agree that many of the biggest scoundrels are still at large. Besides lack of manpower, prosecutors must contend with the enormous complexity of the crimes, the murkiness of the line between fraud and ineptitude, and the difficulty of conveying all this to juries...
McLaughlin's story--an "absurd situation," he terms it--exemplifies the verbal harassment some students in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) say they have had to contend with here. From its tumultuous expulsion off campus in 1969 to last year's debate over returning the program to Harvard, ROTC has had an uneasy relationship with the University...
...feel it generally around campus...definitely a pervasive anti-ROTC feeling," says Mario Mancuso '91, an Army ROTC student. "It's something that you contend with...
Despite their heightened sense of purpose and pride, though, Harvard students must contend with the fact that ROTC has a much better relationship with other college campuses...
...Miramax's biggest test. Four of the 14 films it is distributing were also produced by Miramax. Two of these are already in some trouble. Strike It Rich, with Molly Ringwald, has bombed, and The Lemon Sisters, with Diane Keaton, has been delayed for reworking. Miramax must also contend with greater competition from the big studios. Warner, for instance, outbid Miramax last year for the documentary-style Roger & Me, a major hit. The brothers insist there is still plenty of room in Tinseltown for the little guy. Says Harvey: "We try to be like Rolls-Royce. We make great cars...