Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson will have to contend without defending men's champion Ian Carswell and last year's ninth place finisher Killian Lonergan, who have not competed for the team this season due to injury. Sophomore Scott Muoio and freshman David Martin figure to lead the way for Harvard...
...hidden agenda?" asserts Don Clower, chairman of Idaho's Sportsmen's Heritage Defense Fund. In Idaho, foes of the bear proposition count the Governor and nearly all state legislators on their side, and initiative backers complain they are being outspent 4 to 1. In Michigan as in Idaho, opponents contend that abolishing spring hunting, baiting and hounding would lead to an onslaught of bear problems and thwart hunters...
...rarely preached from the pulpit because, examined too closely, it becomes a scandal." By way of proof Miles cites the Flood in Genesis 8, wherein the Deity obliterates most of the creation he had termed "very good" only pages earlier, because of a trespass on rules that skeptics contend he has not yet stated. In chapter 22, in a passage that stands with the Book of Job as Scripture's most wrenching enigma, he demands that Abraham sacrifice his favorite son and long-awaited heir, relenting only as the knife is poised to strike...
...evidence of a planting theory "slim" but explained that Fuhrman's plea of no contest to perjury gave him no choice. While declaring that he didn't want "grandiose theories placed before a jury," Fujisaki handed the defense several other plums. Among the items they will be allowed to contend were planted as part of a frame-up: blood belatedly gathered from a gate at Nicole Brown Simpson's condominium, bloody socks found in Simpson's bedroom and blood gathered from the Ford Bronco two weeks after the murders. Still, says Los Angeles civil attorney Sandy Astor, "this ruling...
...Christian values according to whom? And where in the Christian Bible is hatred considered laudatory? Isn't the Golden Rule to "love thy neighbor?" It seems that Peninsula's world view, like that of the Catholic Church during the Spanish Inquisition, comprehends legitimacy only as autocratic sanction. Moreover, they contend that office space, which is a good measure of institutional sovereignty on this campus, should only be doled out to "God-fearing conservatives." What is even more outrageous is that the Reverend Peter Gomes, who presides over Memorial Church, serves as a punching bag for Peninsula rather than a moral...