Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compared with 1995, according to the Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Trouble is, the number of films in wide release has risen 13% over last year even as the cost of making and marketing films rose sharply. Not only did the competition for filmgoers' dollars get stiffer, some executives contend that the quality of the films declined as the studios scrambled to shove more and more product into their pipelines...
...could easily be applied to the nation's most volatile issue. "If the state is going to rule that the fetus's rights take precedence over a mother's right to control her body, then the same argument could be used to ban abortion." Opponents of the ruling contend that the law will discourage women from seeking regular checkups during pregnancy...
...could easily be applied to the nation's most volatile issue. "If the state is going to rule that the fetus's rights take precedence over a mother's right to control her body, then the same argument could be used to ban abortion." Opponents of the ruling contend that the law will discourage women from seeking regular checkups during pregnancy...
...more and more economists and businessmen now think? After all, the U.S. has enjoyed four years of inflation below 3%, the longest spell of price stability in three decades. Could the economy perhaps race ahead at 4% or even more, as a few radicals contend...
Perryman of S.M.U. and others counter that in economics as well as military affairs, governments have a strong tendency to fight the last war. Even some staunch advocates of faster growth, however, are uneasy. Very few would contend that there is no limit to noninflationary growth--and if the old 2%-to-2.5% standard is obsolete, where should a new line be drawn? "This is new territory for us," says Annable, the Chicago bank economist. Given the potential payoff, letting growth accelerate seems a gamble at favorable odds, and one well worth taking. But it remains, and irretrievably, a gamble...