Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...excitement began to diminish as I realized that I had more than classes to contend with. This feeling of comfort and pride is exactly what was stifled in my parents and others' parents in the 1950s and 60s when Blacks were attacked for simply walking along the street or for trying to buy a sandwich in a deli. While it is true that the physical circumstances under which we lived a few decades ago differ from now, the sentiments of both Blacks and whites...
...confused by the whole episode with William--surely his death was more than just a stall tactic? Even her jokes are starting to falter ("Berth and birth--she attempted to wrangle the words into a suitable pun, but nothing come.") And now Fisher has given us another invalid to contend with, the unsympathetic, addled Grandpa...
...same time, it possesses a backdoor two keys"-held by two separate government agencies-that will allow the government to decode any data with appropriate warrants. Administration officials contend that the government must have free reign to be able to decode any criminal activity or suspected foreign espionage...
...sometimes it doesn't pay to get too close to the seat of power. The lawyers at Rose have spent much of the past few weeks trying to contend with the tributaries of Whitewater that run straight through their firm -- and the whirring noise of a shredder. Two college students employed as couriers in the Little Rock office say that in late January, after the special counsel began his Whitewater investigation, they shredded materials from the office of Foster, who had handled some of the Clintons' Whitewater dealings, and who committed suicide last July. Senior attorneys are said...
...unprecedented body of evidence linking Iranian officials to the murder of a political opponent abroad. "This case," says a French official familiar with the investigation, "marks the first time that we have so many proofs of the implication of the state in an operation of this importance." Defense lawyers contend that the evidence against their clients is flimsy, and Iranian officials vehemently deny any involvement in this or other foreign assassinations...