Word: claimed
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...remarks he made in lecture were racially insensitive. Racial insensitivity is not something unique to him--it can be intended or unintended, avoidable or unavoidable. Insensitivity results from underlying attitudes or beliefs--unique to each of us--which have been formed by our own racial experiences. None of us claim to be fully cognizant of another's experience or what he or she may consider offensive...
People who claim that baseball is the most boring sport to watch obviously have never seen Princeton play basketball...
...mayor and Olympic officials are trying to stare down one looming controversy as the opening ceremonies approach. A tribe of Indians, the Lubicon Lake Band from northern Alberta, is protesting the Games to bring $ attention to a century-old unsettled land claim. "I support their claim," says Klein, who speaks a dialect of the Blackfoot language. "I oppose their methods." Local police and the Mounties are prepared for demonstrations -- and for the ever present threat of international terrorism. Although security experts privately believe the risk posed by terrorists is low, they are taking no chances. The Olympic Village has been...
...much as $11.95 a day for the C.D.W. Since insurance companies charge the equivalent of $1.30 a day for comparable coverage, rental-car companies are overcharging U.S. consumers up to $2 billion annually on C.D.W.s alone, according to David Cohen, a Massachusetts state legislator. Rental-agency executives claim otherwise. "Waivers do not make any profit for us," says Henry Caruso, president of Dollar Rent...
Still, executives claim that there will be no skimping on coverage. "We've got to maintain the image of ABC Sports here," says Dennis Lewin, senior vice president of production. "Plus there's our own pride at stake." Other things are at stake as well. The Games come in the midst of the important February "sweeps" period and will give the No. 3 network a big, if temporary, ratings boost. The competition, however, will not be playing dead. NBC, for example, has scheduled its biggest mini-series of the season, eight hours of James Clavell's Hong Kong epic Noble...