Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PAUL, Minn.--Before last Saturday night, Ed Krayer's biggest claim to hockey fame was his unusually-low penalty minute total...
...even those heroics couldn't claim the spotlight for Krayer alone. Even Lane MacDonald--winner of the Hobey Baker award--has trouble claiming star status on this team...
Privately, State Department authorities acknowledged that the FDA may have overreacted -- all Chilean fruit on hand was ordered destroyed -- but insisted it would have been irresponsible to have acted otherwise. Government inspectors claim there is no quick way to test for liquid-cyanide poisoning in fruit. But by week's end the FDA was taking an approach similar to the airlines', allowing new imports of grapes and other small fruits but warning consumers to look carefully for holes, mushiness, discoloration or a burnt- almond smell. Safe rather than sorry had given way to FDA Commissioner Young's statement...
Just a month ago George Bush, a life member of the National Rifle Association, told reporters he was "not about to" impose a ban on semiautomatic weapons. But even as he made that claim, the President was searching for ways to cope with the surge in semiautomatic sales. Advisers from Barbara Bush to Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates pleaded with the President to outlaw the guns. For several weeks Bush had discussed the semiautomatic-weapons dilemma with his friend Senator James McClure, an Idaho Republican and staunch gun-rights defender. The President was torn between wanting to protect...
...League restaked its claim in the first round of this year's tournament, when Princeton took third-ranked Georgetown to the wire. If it weren't for two last-second blocks by Hoya center Alonzo Mourning, the Tigers could still be in the tournament...