There are "arguments on both sides", he contended on the Guardian politics blog.
He contended on his blog that he was merely playing a joke on Mr. Allnatt, who happens to be the agent who sold him that Mata Grande villa.
"He SHOULD be compared to John Coltrane or Wayne Shorter," he contended, "on his abilities (or lack thereof) to play the soprano saxophone".
In his recent television appearances, Mr. Traficant has likened the trial to that of an innocent mouse, himself, facing a vindictive elephant, the abusive government, which, he contended on "Crossfire" on CNN, "has the judge on their side".
Levin was bewildered and infuriated, and from then on he became an intractable and indefatigable warrior on behalf of his play — and on behalf, he contended, of the diary's true meaning.
Rather, he contends, prices on the world market are artificially depressed by surplus sugar from countries that subsidize production.
In the Festo case, Horst Saalbach, the vice chairman of Festo's American subsidiary, seeks to prevent SMC from marketing products that he contends infringe on Festo's patents.
Globalization has been badly managed, he contends, colliding head-on with some of the nostrums of the I.M.F. and what is sometimes called the Washington Consensus.
But what is really going on, he contends in The Harvard Business Review, is that private equity firms are simply applying, albeit very quickly, the best of classic strategic thinking, and their actions can actually improve the acquired company's long-term performance.
