Word: claimed
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Meanwhile, the once desperate people in the Baby M case are likely to find themselves tied together for some time by the common bond of the child they all claim. Whitehead-Gould declared herself "delighted to know my relationship with my daughter will continue for the rest of our lives." That prospect left the Sterns considerably less than delighted. They plan to try to block or limit the visits...
...Calgary as a town full of red-neck, capitalist cowboys driving Cadillacs," complains Rod Love, who works in the mayor's office. "We are the financial and technical capital of Western Canada." There is a stock exchange and a contingent of high-tech companies to back up that claim. There is even a mayor who acts plumb comfortable in pinstripes and silk ties...
Unlike the U.S., which claims a three-mile territorial limit, the Soviet Union claims a 12-mile limit along its coast, Schiff explained. The U.S. will accept such a claim, but any country claiming 12 miles "must allow for innocent passage by the ships of all nations," he said...
Even granting that the admissions office's reasoning and statistics are sound, what about their implicit claim that universities should base their success on producing "leaders in many different fields," and that nonacademic activity is an important part of this task...
Drayton, who is Yale's only Rhodes Scholar this year, laughed and said "they don't even want to claim me. They'd have preferred an undergrad...