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In addition, the local corporations are being asked to adopt new certificates of incorporation and bylaws, which some of the groups contend vastly expand LSNY's powers.
The president is not, after all, king--he has Congress to contend with, and even once a law has been passed, it doesn't necessarily mean that it'll be enforced.
This, they contend, would bring similar results in terms of diversity, without the evident unfairness.
"A young Audrey Hepburn as refashioned for the post-grunge crowd" (Elysa Gardner, Entertainment Weekly ). Cynics contend she's a "producer's puppet," a pretty face who can't write songs or sing (David Thigpen, Time ).
Now, with nothing to regularly contend with, this theory argues, the system is set off by the most harmless foreign particle.