Word: contends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pivotal question is whether reporters' personal values actually color their stories. Although it seems self-evident that they do, some scholars, such as political scientist Michael Genovese of Loyola Marymount University, contend that there is no clear proof of it. ABC's Brit Hume says his avowed conservatism never intrudes on his work: "It's not hard to keep bias out; you just have to be conscious of it. Most reporters are in denial." Some journalists go to great lengths to appear neutral. Executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. of the Washington Post abstains from voting and urges his staff, especially...
...periodically -- and from Clinton with some regularity -- there is enough of a debate about future directions to perceive two very different governing philosophies. It simply is not true, as even many academics contend, that the candidates differ only at the margins. From Bush it is more of the same, a laissez-faire embrace of free markets, a scarcely subtle survival-of-the- fittest signal. The Republicans, it is clear, see nothing wrong with extending the Me decade indefinitely; no matter that Reagan's trickle-down nostrums, which were supposed to lift all boats, have so far lifted only yachts...
...election, Bush's assaults will continue and escalate. It is possible he can still destroy Clinton. If that is the result, he can be assured of a terminally hostile Democratic Congress through his second term. Moreover, he will have no positive mandate from the voters and will have to contend with a bitter battle within his own party over his successor in 1996. As he wandered over the line of decency last week in his red-baiting attacks, a troubling question arose: If Bush wins a second term by these destructive tactics, will he have destroyed his presidency in order...
...great fun," O'Leary says laughing. "We all like to think we're young and strong. At one point, we used to contend, but our fantasies are starting to slip away from...
...control: over the environment, over other living organisms, over mountains of data, above all over one's psychology and genetics and destiny. The biggest intellectual battle of the future is likely to occur between those who believe that this drive can be governed by humankind alone and those who contend that it must be subject to the restraints of nature and the divine. The shape of things to $ come will depend heavily on who prevails in this debate...