Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protesters are now on the other side, the courageous free spirit more likely to be conservative than liberal. It is they who now lay claim to the protections of free speech, who can claim that morality is on their side. Even The Dartmouth Review claims the privileges of the oppressed...
...city residents claim a hotel would ruin the charm of the Square's eastern end. Two weeks ago, the East Harvard Square Neighborhood Association sent the council a petition asking that the area be downzoned for solely residential use. The current zoning allows the University to build commercial facilities up to 80 feet high...
...probably the only actor who can claim to have portrayed a cartoon character, a real-life character, and an alien," said Dwyang, noting that Williams' alternation between technical diligence and impulsive individualism were once described by Time Magazine as "Juliard and wackiness...
Pushing diplomacy along, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who ruled Kampuchea from 1953 to 1970, may have dropped his demand that the Hanoi-backed regime be dismantled before a new national-unity government could be installed. As leader of the main non-Communist rebel faction, Sihanouk has a strong claim to at least a symbolic leadership post in a new government after the Vietnamese pull...
...Temple University, has written a book about mathematical illiteracy. Titled Innumeracy (Hill & Wang; $16.95), it seeks to explain why so many people are numerically inept and shows how they can learn to work and play with figures. Paulos, 43, has no patience with mathematical dumbos who almost boastfully claim, "I can't even balance my checkbook," or "I'm a people person, not a numbers person." "I'm pained," he says, "at the belief that mathematics is an esoteric discipline with little relation or connection to the 'real' world...