Word: contend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ranked Harvard (20-4, 7-0 Ivy) reached the third round of last year's tournament and is a favorite against No. 30 Notre Dame (17-7). However, the Crimson will likely have to contend with a pro-Irish crowd in Notre Dame's home state of Indiana...
Supporters of the bill contend that tenants are currently given the opportunity to live for months rent-free by charging that minor code violations make their abodes uninhabitable...
Supporters of the bill contend that tenants are currently given the opportunity to live for months rent-free by charging that minor code violations make their abodes uninhabitable...
...support me." He then gave a lecture on global warming's vexing politics--the Senate would soundly reject the treaty in its current form--and abruptly ended the meeting. The green lobbyists concede that the public isn't yet ready to back painful measures to combat global warming, but contend that a political donnybrook led by the Vice President, even in a losing cause, would raise awareness. Not so, says Gore. "We lost the fight in 1993," he observes, referring to the far-reaching "BTU tax" on fuels that went down to defeat. "We're not yet winning the fight...
...Most Harvard students would presume not, but both officers and scholars of military affairs have made an interesting case that it does. For instance, they argue that the sexual tension that would result from the presence of openly gay soldiers would constitute an unacceptable threat to unit cohesion. They contend the same logic that demands that heterosexual men and women be segregated in barracks and wash facilities ought to apply in some extension to the matter of homosexuals in single-sex units...