Word: claime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, only a handful of students and scholars are interested in fighting for ethnic studies as a department. Others claim the study of American ethnicity should take place within existing disciplines...
Fortunately, President Clinton is expected to veto the bill this week. Clinton is calling for a smaller income tax cut and some increased domestic spending on widely popular social programs. There is a deep hypocrisy in Republican outcries against Clinton's budget plans, which they claim are extravagant, in contrast with their own willingness to approve an irresponsible trillion dollar...
While Clinton's plan was shot down for cutting into social security funds, the Republicans certainly cannot claim the high ground. After insisting that they would not exceed spending limits, the Republicans are now calling the 2000 census an "emergency" in order to make their excessive spending exempt from the caps. It is ironic that Republicans insist that there is almost $800 billion in surplus for a tax cut yet they cannot yet stay inside their self-imposed spending caps. In fact, both parties knew that the spending caps would eventually be exceeded, but neither one wanted...
...with what it felt was a legitimate claim, the organization recently moved to register its name officially as a trademark under both "The Lampoon" and "The Harvard Lampoon." But when they applied for trademark rights, Harvard University said...
...problem lay with the use of the word "Harvard"--the University essentially said it had such a strong claim to the Harvard name that even the Lampoon could not register it without permission...