Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bill addresses the contentious issue of dairy subsidies by ending a special tax on dairy producers and phasing down government support for butter, powdered milk and cheese over a four year period. The measure also guarantees food stamp programs for two years and preserves rural conservation programs. Supporters contend that although initial spending may increase, the legislation will eventually save some $2 billion over the next seven years...
Across the board, the critics contend that comprehensive engagement has amounted to giving in to China whenever the two countries have come into conflict. To some degree, the record over the past few years bears that out. China's responses to Washington's efforts have been "a mixed bag," says a State Department official. The U.S. has been quietly appreciative of Beijing's cutoff of military assistance to the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in 1990, of its cooperation in the apparently successful effort to freeze North Korea's nuclear-weapons program and of its restraint in using its U.N. Security...
...like to be a real star. Most Hollywood vets know the drill: the rash of press interviews, the upsurge in people stopping you on the street to sing your praises. But Lane, who plays the flamboyantly effeminate half of a gay couple in The Birdcage, has to contend with something other movie stars don't. Stopped in Manhattan traffic in a taxi one day last week, he noticed a rough-looking van driver staring down at him. The fellow turned to his friend, then leaned out the window and yelled, "Hey, faggot...
...fights that war from his side, Peres must contend with the sometime fecklessness of Arafat, the rage of the Israelis, the bitterness of the Palestinians and the mistrust of his own military--all while an election rapidly approaches. So far, he has navigated quite coolly, but he sails a narrow channel, and the seas may well grow higher...
...stagnated since the '70s, and high-paying white-collar jobs continue to disappear in times of recovery as well as recession. What it all seemed to boil down to is that children can no longer expect to enjoy a higher standard of living than their parents and instead must contend with a much higher level of job insecurity...