Word: contend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mansfield's hope is that the House Ways and Means Committee, which is working on its own plan to revise the tax structure, will get its version of reform passed by the House and the Senate before Congress goes on vacation Aug. 13. Administration economists contend that if the bill is delayed until fall, the battle against inflation may be lost altogether. While the tax will continue to be withheld from paychecks until a decision is made, the wait for final approval, say Treasury experts, undercuts their efforts to slow inflation and brake the economy. On the other hand...
...chance that the threatened lawsuit can be averted. Redmond is already faced with the prospect of cutting faculty strength by 7,000 teachers and reducing services because of the city's inability to meet the cost of a Daley-dictated contract. Now he must also contend with an obdurate union, whose president, John Desmond, has custom, state law and the public on his side and has vowed to defend the seniority system in court...
...radio telescopes will be able to pick up the entire spectrum of these frequencies. Furthermore, by building radio telescopes on the back side of the moon, astronomers will be able to escape completely from the radio interference caused by earth's increasingly electronic civilization. Without the background "noise" to contend with, radio astronomers will be able to detect much fainter radiation from space, perhaps even the weak signals of a distant civilization...
...nature of altruism itself is the topic of increasingly sophisticated research: eventually, they may reveal how more people can be encouraged to leave the crowd and take the crucial first helpful step. Meanwhile, Latane and Darley contend that being aware of these antisocial pressures is the first step toward resisting them. Thus prepared, they contend, "we can choose to see distress and step forward to relieve...
...stamps, they are entitled to $3 in free goods or services. Merchants, who pay about 1½? for each four stamps, appear enthusiastic. Jesse Porter, a barber in Berkeley, reports that "kids keep coming in all the time now for haircuts just to get the stamps." B & B officers contend that, since merchants redeem the stamps on the spot, the repeat business enables them to pay for the stamps without raising prices...