Word: claime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other, she appears to be trying to stop the facts from coming out. While the attorney general was reported Wednesday to be searching for a qualified outsider to lead an investigation, her department also filed a motion Tuesday challenging U.S. District Judge Walter Smith?s right to claim custody of all evidence relating to the siege collected at the Branch Davidian compound. Judge Smith, whose district is in Texas, ruled that he would take control of the evidence following a motion brought by the Texas Public Safety Commission to make evidence gathered at the massacre site available to civil litigants...
Spyridon first alarmed his flock in early 1997, when one of his appointees reassigned seminary staff members who had recommended expelling a priest involved in a homosexual-harassment complaint. Critics claim Spyridon wanted to hush the case up. They also said he was traditionalist and high-handed, espousing monastic beards and ceremonial hats for priests and castigating American touches like female choir participation. When more than 100 priests--including the Rev. Robert Stephanopoulos, a popular Manhattan cleric and George's father--signed a letter criticizing him, he handed Stephanopoulos a de facto demotion. A dissident campaign sprang up, organized...
...counterintelligence at the Los Alamos Weapons Laboratory, charged last week that ethnic bias led investigators to focus on the Asian American. But officials say Vrooman helped compose the original suspects list (which, apart from Lee and his wife, included one other Asian and nine Caucasians) and made his new claim only after being subject to disciplinary action...
...trick you into answering questions. First they'll say, "It's not about drugs; it's about"--fill in the blank. It's about "judgment" or "honesty" or "security clearances." Forget it. It's always about the drugs. The other thing is not to be seduced by the claim that if you just answer this one question, it will all be over. The next time you get a drug question the only appropriate answer is, What part of no don't you understand...
...sets of books: one for the payroll department and another for supervisors, who tallied up overtime hours as a measure of a lawyer?s efforts. The case will be defended by other Justice Department lawyers, lawyers who stand to get paid more if they lose but who nevertheless gamely claim that the 1945 law doesn?t apply to them and never has. That could be a tough argument to make in a roomful of lawyers who, for the privilege of public service, make about a third of what their private-sector counterparts do ?- but are still expected...