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The Los Angeles Times , the Washington Post , and the New York Times all lead with Congress' approval of the fiercely contended spending bill.
Unlike the technocrats, party hacks, and angry populists who have contended for the Democratic presidential nomination over the past three decades, he echoes the valor and innocence of the early 1960s.
The attorneys contended that the city has an obligation to pay the tenants for damages they have sustained by being evicted for property that will be used for a public purpose.
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.
No evidence was submitted to the Commission that either the agricultural community or individual growers have ever previously contended that an LSC recipient was acting improperly by representing an alien who was out of the United States.