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According to that publication, the student contended that "the catalogue of course offerings and academic policies created a contract that obligated the college to provide him with a nursing degree."
Before they got control of Congress, conservatives contended that the big problem in Washington was an infestation of vermin known as "career politicians."
Titled Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution , the book contended that the molecular machinery of living things works too well to have been produced by chance alone.
Webster rose to its defense and contended that the social unrest had been caused by a misrepresentation of the word.
Novak's Blaxsploitation: Last week, Capital Gang ster Robert Novak contended that black Americans' post-bellum achievements represent the slave trade's oft-overlooked silver lining.