Word: claimed
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...Massachusetts public defenders claim the polygraph has a 90 percent accuracy rate, according to a recent article in The Boston Globe. In addition, the FBI and CIA regularly use polygraphs...
...released last week, for example, indicated that Mitterrand was the first choice of 48% of the electorate, vs. 22% for Barre and 20.5% for Chirac. More important, Barre consistently scores higher than Chirac against Mitterrand alone (though he still comes in second), supporting the former Premier's oft-voiced claim that he offers the center-right its best chance of winning the climactic second round. Still, if Mitterrand enters the race, the La Fontaine fable will have to be rewritten. How would a tortoise and a hare fare against...
...rioters. Settlers have raided Arab towns, vandalizing cars and houses. Armed with Uzis, pistols and billy clubs, ultrafanatic inhabitants of Kiryat Arba, home of Meir Kahane's extremist Kach movement, pile into cars and vans every day to patrol the roads leading to Hebron and Nablus. They claim that their purpose is to "supplement" the Israeli army; their real intent seems to be provocation and revenge. "The Palestinians are not afraid of the soldiers," insists Shmuel Ben-Yishai, a spokesman for the Kiryat Arba residents. "But they are afraid of us." Ben-Yishai, who directs his troop of nearly...
...Israelis themselves who must come to terms with what the settlers represent: an insistence on keeping every inch of the land that 1.4 million Palestinians also claim. Until the nation as a whole faces that dilemma, the turmoil is likely...
...sweet years the individual retirement account was Everyman's tax shelter, providing a tax-deductible savings plan enjoyed by millions of Americans. But as the April 15 income-tax deadline approaches, that once sturdy shelter is leaking badly. Because of tax reform, high-income IRA holders can no longer claim deductions on contributions to their accounts. Many taxpayers, though, are not despairing; they are switching to another tax- deferred investment vehicle that has become an attractive alternative to the IRA. Its cryptic name: the 401(k). Says Christine Okenica, benefits coordinator at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae, a New York...