Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Critics claim he is running up scores on opponents. The facts seem to bear out the claims. Holy Cross, the top team in Division I-AA, has beaten its rivals by a collective 432-97 score...
...savoring as America runs short of borrowed time and borrowed dollars. Indeed, the hope that one of the 1988 contenders is a hidden F.D.R. may be the only comfort amid the dreary landscape of their economic pronouncements and records. None of the top-tier candidates in either party can claim to be talking sense to the American people. A few, such as Bob Dole and Michael Dukakis, can point to past accomplishments. But, for the most part, economic leadership is inversely proportional to standing in the polls. Bruce Babbitt in particular has advanced a laudable program on the deficit; most...
...crucial question is how many raiders have weathered the market's tempests with enough cash to bankroll new deals. Several prominent players claim to have pulled out of stocks before the crash, and may still have sizable cash reserves. At Drexel Burnham Lambert, which last year financed more takeovers than any other Wall Street firm, Chief Executive Frederick Joseph contends that "there is still a lot of capital out there." If that is true, the takeover game could soon become as fast paced as it was in pre-crash days...
...Social Security trust fund over the years. They see Social Security as an insurance rather than a welfare program, and this attitude has made benefits virtually unassailable by cost cutters. To ensure that the program remains sacrosanct, it is watched over by an enormous lobby: some 110 organizations that claim to represent approximately 50 million members. The forces behind Social Security are so strong that when Ronald Reagan proposed cutting Social Security benefits in 1981, the Republican- controlled Senate slapped him down by a vote...
...rights, Cry Freedom ought to be Bantu Stephen Biko's story. The man was as close to being an authentic martyr as any revolution can claim: charismatic preacher of nonviolent resistance, champion of racial equality, steely victim of state sadism. He died in the arms of his torturers ten years ago. There is surely a film here, but Attenborough and Screenwriter John Briley can't find it. The men who made Gandhi turn their Steve Biko (Denzel Washington, from TV's St. Elsewhere) into a saintly apparition; he is first seen swathed in blinding sunlight and last seen shimmering...