Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard had to contend with one rather unpleasant but undeniable fact--UVA is one he--double hockey stick of a lacrosse team...
...drugs. This is a powerful statistic, but one should also note that in the majority of these violent, drug-induced crimes, alcohol was the only drug. And the four drugs the students are charged with are not known to contribute in any way to violent behavior (many would contend they suppress violent behavior...
...that time, the club voted to drop the word Radcliffe from its name, a measure that some former club members contend led female members of the club to feel that they did not stand on equal ground with the male members of the organization...
Opponents of the line-item veto, which they contend is unconstitutional, abhor the unprecedented shift of power from Congress to the President. "The control of the purse [by Congress] is the foundation of our constitutional system of checks and balances," says Senator Robert Byrd, who is legendary for directing wasteful spending to West Virginia. Byrd predicts that Presidents will use the measure to blackmail members of Congress into rubber-stamping White House plans out of fear for their own pet projects. That worry isn't entirely off the wall--Presidents play politics too--but it's more likely that Congress...
...plaintiffs contest this decision and contend that the Massachusetts Historical Commission was, according to statute, required to review the plans for the entire project, including the plans to divide the Great Hall...