1.   Blixt said that if the jurisdiction ruling is upheld, the companies also plan to contest FDA assertions about tobacco that were included in the regulations.

2.   Abortion opponents contest those assertions, saying no reliable figures are available.

3.   Bruce Vladeck, the chief administrator of Medicare for the Clinton administration, contested the assertion that many hospitals keep an internal set of Medicare cost estimates.

4.   Facing that captive audience of adoring innocents, who could not or would not contest his assertions, perhaps he could not suppress his urge to say something audacious.

5.   Ms. Borda did not contest these assertions.

6.   The Israeli army is already contesting that assertion.

7.   The Prigges contest that assertion.