Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Biden and his aides make statements of fact in refutation, such as the claim that attribution to Kinnock was originally intended. The press then applies scrutiny to these claims of fact. Each fact which the press refutes thus damages the candidate's credibility...
Saturday the honors went to sophomore forward David Kramer, who bumped in a pretty feed from midfielder Paul Baverstock to break the 0-0 deadlock. Harvard held on to claim a 1-0 Ivy victory...
...last time the two neighbors went to war. In a statement last week, the Indian Defense Ministry confirmed that a "major battle" had taken place on the contested glacier after as many as 1,200 Pakistani troops, backed by artillery and rockets, attacked Indian positions. The Indians claim to have held their ground, losing 20 men and killing about 80 Pakistanis. Said an Indian official: "This was Pakistan's attempt to take some real estate before winter sets...
...Unfortunately, today's "new woman" is too often contending with the same old man. Women continue to do the lion's share of the housekeeping, child care and cooking, even in households where both partners work. Glamour magazine surveys have found, for example, that the proportion of women who claim that they share child-care duties equally with their partners has actually dropped in the past three years, from 40% to 31%. "The big disappointment is that younger men aren't that different from their fathers," says University of Texas Sociologist Glenn...
...Matanzima dynasty has long been an embarrassment to South Africa, and not just because of its alleged corruption. When Pretoria rebuffed his claim to South African territory bordering on Transkei, Kaiser briefly committed the diplomatic farce of breaking off "relations" with the government that had granted Transkei its dubious independence. Last February Transkei-trained commandos were accused by authorities in Ciskei of attempting to assassinate their President, Lennox Sebe. The incident led to a virtual state of war between Pretoria's two pseudostate offspring...