Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordered Agnew to pay an additional $24,197 in state taxes and interest. In an appeal last week, Agnew argued that the $24,197 should be returned to him as a tax refund on his restitution. Conway Collis, a member of the state board of equalization, pronounced Agnew's claim "unbelievable" and said he found it "very hard to be sympathetic" to the former Vice President. If the tax board granted him the refund, said Collis, "we are in effect asking other California taxpayers to subsidize Mr. Agnew's wrongdoing." Agnew's appeal was rejected by a 5-0 vote...
...already been inside the country, but his eleventh-hour bid to establish a military presence made little sense. Militarily, the guerrillas invited maximum reprisals by Namibian security forces that were all too ready and able to oblige. Politically, the bloody incursions gave the guerrillas' opponents ammunition to challenge their claim that they are the "sole and authentic" representative of Namibia's 1.25 million people...
...comfortable they felt participating in class discussions, most women Government concentrators said that they were comfortable in class discussions, but about one-quarter said that they felt uncomfortable. Compared to either men Government concentrators or women non-Government social science concentrators, women in Government are less likely to claim that they feel comfortable in class discussions in their concentration...
Although the Navy refuses to comment on the nature of the dolphins' tasks, private sources claim the dolphins defend moored nuclear submarines by identifying and killing saboteur-divers. Others are reportedly trained to locate mines (one dolphin died during recent naval operations in the Persian Gulf). Apparently, the CIA has even approached former trainers from the hit 1960s TV show, "Flipper," asking them to train dolphins to place explosives on ships...
...Soviet system has aroused the interest and attention of the whole world as, perhaps, the most unusual and frightening phenomenon of the 20th century. It is frightening because it lays claim to the future of all humanity and seizes more and more countries and spheres of influence, considering itself the ideal and ordained end of the historical development of the entire world. It is so new, strong and extraordinary that at times even people nurtured in her womb, her children so to speak, perceive it as if it were some sort of monstrosity or invasion from Mars, to which...