Word: contending
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...strike moratorium could get a severe test next week, when the Polish Supreme Court is expected to decide whether private farmers can form an independent union. So far the authorities have resisted, arguing that the farmers are self-employed and thus cannot bargain as employees. The farmers contend that they are in effect state employees, since the government sets their prices. At a meeting last week, they warned of a possible strike if their union is not recognized. It was not a threat the authorities could take lightly, since private farmers own 75% of Poland's agricultural land...
...many of Fraser's units have had to contend with Harvard's arsenal of attorneys, but for now at least, union organizers are optimistic...
...students, instead of helping to cleanse the moral atmosphere that their racist fellows have polluted, join in the demand for a Black retreat. A typical exercise in White bourgeois scapegoating and self-service. Next you will support a Harvard Black Crimson. No wonder Malcolm x thought the had to contend with devils...
...some experts contend that customers who reduce the flow of cold air into their homes with proper weather stripping and install new flame-retention oil burners, which cost about $400 and increase furnace efficiency by improving the air-fuel mixture, can save more money than by converting...
...Book of Common Prayer has supplanted the old. The new Alternative Service Book, English church officials insist, is merely to "supplement" the 1662 version. But opponents fear that it will eventually eliminate traditional prayers and King James Bible readings. As evidence, they contend that the old services are already virtually unused in theological schools and in parishes that have used the new rites during an extended trial period...