Word: contend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passed, 1-2-3 would allow some tenants in rent-controlled housing to buy their apartments, which is currently prohibited. Meyer and other referendum supporters contend that this change would allow thousands of low-income city residents to own their own homes...
...years environmentalists and loggers have quarreled over the fate of "old- growth" forests in the Pacific Northwest. Conservationists contend that cutting the ancient trees on federally owned land in Oregon and Washington State threatens the habitat of the endangered spotted owl, which lives only in old-growth forests. The lumber industry objects that a ban would devastate the timber-based economies of the region. Last week George Bush signed into law a compromise hammered out by a congressional conference committee. It prohibits sales of timber from areas where the spotted owl dwells, but permits 7.7 billion board feet of wood...
...while the governor may be able to protect his legacy because he will not seek reelection, others contend the scope of his agenda will be weakened...
Proponents of the measure, however, contend that it would give low-income city residents an opportunity to buy apartments at a discount rate, because landlords would only have one market for their rent-controlled apartments...
Some executives contend that innovation is alive and well, citing such advances as notebook-size computers and high-speed RISC microprocessors. Says T.J. Rodgers, chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor: "What the bean counters who make projections forget is that in the next two to three years, we will have the next set of innovations, which will make them abandon their projections. It has happened before, and it will happen again." Don Valentine, a partner in Sequoia Capital, a venture-capital firm, contends that creative stagnation is confined mostly to the big corporations, including IBM, Wang and Unisys. Says he: "There...