Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winning side based its claim on the argument that no institution should be abolished unless it can clearly be shown that it is harming segments of society...
...laude, and to qualify for his Latin suffix must straddle himself with two extra half-courses. But this additional load is not supplemented with any tutorial assistance and the student must assimilate this extra helping by himself, without the benefit of well-versed personal guidance. Despite the claim that lab sections are the nearest thing possible to group tutorial, few of the section men become well-acquainted with their students and, with the exception of his advisor, the chemistry major must plod his formula-laden path alone...
...Most controversial measure in the Dewey program was a bill designed to outlaw strikes by public employees. Under the bill, which at week's end was awaiting the Governor's signature, any public employee who stayed out on strike would be summarily dismissed; if rehired-on his claim, for instance, that pickets had kept him away from work-he could get no pay increase for three years...
Concessions & Complications. This week Molotov presented the Russian economic proposals for Germany. He revived the $10 billion reparations claim (first made at Yalta), but offered to spread payments over 20 years. As expected, Molotov stipulated that some German reparations would come out of current production; he demanded a Soviet share in control of the Ruhr. Most significantly, Molotov was willing to let German industry recover to a level represented by 12 million tons of steel production-capacity a year. (In the 1946 squabble over the German level of industry, the British proposed to leave Germany 12 million tons of steel...
...Dutch-Shell (23¾%); Jersey Standard and Socony-Vacuum, through their jointly owned Near East Development Corp. (23¾%); the French Government through its Compagnie Française des Petroles (23¾%). The only individual is a mysterious Armenian financier, Calouste S. Gulbenkian, whose 5% gives him a distant claim to the title of the "world's richest...