Word: contends
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Scheme Z, which state Transportation officials contend is the only feasible way to complete the Central Artery project, has been severely critized by environmental groups and city officials in Cambridge and Boston. Opponents of the project here contend that it would simply transfer the current unsightly Artery structure from Boston to Cambridge, creating a host of environmental problems in the process...
...charge of Soviet expansionism -- but he did so in the final battles of World War II, not as a prelude to World War III. The Red Army had filled the vacuum left by the collapsing Wehrmacht. By the early 1950s, any Kremlin warmonger would have to contend with a Western Europe that was already firmly back on its feet and therefore no pushover, and also with an American doctrine warning that Soviet aggression would trigger nuclear retaliation against the U.S.S.R...