Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...performers we have a lot to contend with already," Chen says. "A lot of times it's very frustrating...
...intelligence sources, Bird's son Vere Jr. has been tied to a 1990 plot to establish a school that would train mercenaries to fight for the Medellin cartel. He was also involved, they say, in covert gun shipments to the cartel through Antigua, Panama and Colombia. U.S. investigators contend that the Bird dynasty--the current Prime Minister is Vere's son Lester--continues to look the other way as traffickers operate. Another son, Ivor Bird, was convicted last year of trying to smuggle 27 lbs. of cocaine onto the island. He paid a $20,000 fine and served no jail...
...because so few students have the necessary background in East Asian Studies, many concentrators contend that the sophomore tutorial must necessarily be intense...
...intend this editorial as an attack on first-years. I merely contend that any senior who has not degenerated over three years must know more than first-years, not only about a given area of study, but also about how to think. The seminar format--the ability for non-specialists to learn from a distinguished scholar--is a wonderful opportunity. As it stands, Freshman Seminars are wasted upon the first-years...
Collins had a moment of high drama late in the week while being cross-examined by a Random House lawyer. Did she not, she was asked, contend in a 1992 $20 million lawsuit against the Globe tabloid that published photographs of her topless with her boyfriend so distressed her that she was unable to fulfill her Random House contract? "Don't you have any shame?" he bellowed. Showing little of the steely resolve of Alexis Carrington, the character she portrayed in TV's Dynasty in the 1980s, Collins fled the witness stand in tears...