Word: contends
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...hopes to wrest first place from the firm fists of the Big Green (8-6 overall, 3-0 Ivy). Since Dartmouth remains the lone undefeated team in Ivy league play, this won't be an easy task. Besides the Big Green's record, the Crimson also must contend with the cycles of recent history...
...with All-Ivy guard James Blackwell and the 7-ft., 1-in. Walter Palmer to contend with, the Crimson will need all the help...
...lingering ghost of the last City Council was put to rest Monday night, as the new council voted to repeal a December ordinance that critics contend could have removed hundreds of apartments from the rent control system...
Brian Mitchell, author of Weak Link: The Feminization of the American Military, argues that the use of female troops in Panama proved nothing. "The sorts of things they were doing could be done by a twelve-year-old with a rifle," he says. He and other critics contend that women are not capable of performing critical battlefield functions: women Marines, for example, are not allowed to throw live grenades because the corps does not believe they can toss them far enough to avoid injury. But recent Army studies indicate that women's physical strength develops rapidly during training...
...students contend that the suit is aculmination of activity designed to pressure theschool into hiring more women and minority facultymembers...