Word: contend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become salient (much to the dismay of many conservatives), minorities have learned to organize to demand respect and acknowledgement. Being a minority has meant learning to become visible after being invisible for so many years, something that conservatives in this country and at this institution have never had to contend with...
Harvard will still be left to contend with sophomore midfielder Katharina Lindner, and senior forward Tory Munro. Lindner and Munro--who are tied for second on the team in points with six apiece--will be looked upon to pick up the slack for Hartford...
...defendants in the Virginia rape case are charged under the Violence Against Women Act, but contend that the commerce clause is not a sound basis for the act, and therefore that the case against them is invalid. The court?s deliberations will be watched carefully by lawmakers, because if the commerce clause is rejected as a viable basis for anti-discrimination law, it could affect not only the Violence Against Women Act but also countless other civil rights laws. ?Every major civil rights law on the federal books was enacted under the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution,? says Sanders...
...overpopulation, from the mundane (increased traffic congestion) to the catastrophic (the worldwide AIDS epidemic, shortages in freshwater). Watchdog groups like Zero Population Growth point out that birth rates are actually rising in many developing nations, which do not have the resources to deal with such a situation. They also contend that no matter how sharply birth rates are reduced, the world population will continue to grow for another century merely because older generations are not dying as quickly as younger ones are being born...
...retained elements of their old cultures, and the fabric of undergraduate life has not frayed into disarray. Extracurricular groups have picked up much of the slack in the realm of community formation, and while Harvard College is certainly not the same as it was pre-randomization, we cannot honestly contend that it has been measurably harmed...