Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charges of racial insensitivity were brought against Professor Thernstrom by a group of students in Historical Studies A-25, which he co-taught with University Professor Bernard Bailyn. The students claim that certain comments made by Thernstrom during his lectures were offensive to minorities, particularly Blacks...
...made his famous "lead pipe" promise not to raise taxes. During his first administration, he implemented a wonderful device known as a surtax--i.e., a tax on your taxes. During his 1986 campaign for reelection, he conveniently decided to repeal the surtax, which allowed him to claim on the presidential campaign trail that he had cut taxes...
...once in a Massachusetts primary, the underdog Republicans can claim that the real battle is in their party. Democratic primaries often decide elections in this state. But this time the Democratic contest is all but over, while Vice President George Bush and Sen. Robert Dole (R.-Kan.) are competing relatively hard for delegates here...
Falwell took it very seriously. He sued the X-rated magazine and Publisher Larry Flynt for $45 million, charging them with invasion of privacy, libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress. In 1984 his privacy claim was thrown out by a federal judge, and a jury found no libel, believing no reasonable person could think that the spoof was being presented as factual. But the jury agreed with Falwell's complaint about emotional distress and awarded the televangelist $200,000. Despite the novelty of the verdict, an appeals court upheld the judgment. The jury's award to Falwell...
...trend that has led plaintiffs who feel offended by the media to try to collect damages for injury -- to their right of privacy, for instance, or their feelings -- when they cannot make the more difficult case for libel. But the court said last week that even when public figures claim emotional injury, they still must meet the complex "actual malice" standard devised for libel in the landmark 1964 decision New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. In that case, the court said that a public figure must show that a publication knew its statements were false or had recklessly disregarded...