Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student concerns weren't enough, the College was also left to contend with system sabotage, exemplified last fall by vandals who damaged a card key validator by filling it with glue...
Administrators contend, however, that even without any set of hard and fast regulations, the construction labor used by the University is very frequently from unions. "Ninety percent of our total dollar volume is spent on union labor," says David A. Zewinski senior vice president for property operations and construction...
...fact, say administrators, using non-union labor often means supporting newer area contractors who are struggling to get on their feet. And a number of the smaller firms are minority-owned, administrators say, though union members contend that affirmative action programs are a benefit of union labor. "There are good non-union firms and employers out there," Demong says...
This is part of the prevailing logic around Harvard's athletic headquarters in the red brick building at 60 JFK Street. Administrators there contend, moreover, that the only ones worthy of criticism at Harvard are the coaches, because they are the paid professionals...
Defenders of Houtkin say the burden of proof is on dealers to show that small-order players really are harming the market. After all, these supporters contend, no marketmaker has bailed out of the dealers' association, and many Wall Street firms enjoyed record profits in the first quarter of this year. In response, the association sent the SEC a study last month that purports to show that traders using the system drove down the price of nine stocks, mostly health-care firms, during two weeks in February and March...