Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They claim Goodwin, ignorant of Johnson's ways and untrained in psychiatry, has no right to psychoanalyze the President of the United States. His random quotes from psychiatric textbooks and his few unnamed psychiatrist friends do not constitute an informed medical judgment. Most importantly, Goodwin, a Kennedy man at heart, really didn't know Johnson, having worked under him for less than two years. These arguments are persuasive and demonstrate the dangers in armchair psychiatry...
...eliminating the wage would contribute to lower construction costs and help create lower municipal tax rates. But according to the pro-wage Committee for Quality of Life, the average cost of labor on a construction bid is only 15 to 20 percent. If the prevailing wage were repealed, they claim, and wages were cut by as much as 20 percent, the overall decrease in the price of the project to a community would be as little as 2 to 3 percent...
Remember that a resume is an example of your work. If you claim skill in organization and ability to communicate clearly and concisely, your resume should demonstrate your proficiency in those skills...
...claim that Cambridge somehow prevents Blacks from being called for jury duty. However, it seems that the problem faced by that young Black man I saw is not as unique as I once thought. Moreover, it appears quite reasonable to speculate that the disproportionately larger numbers of Blacks than whites who have received death sentences may be due to all-white juries. Juries, no matter how noble their purpose, do not exist in a vacuum, and one white racist could unfairly influence the decision...
...demonstration of moral strength, which unites everyone with a sense of pride, strength, or even outrage. Our generation has never confronted a reality harsher than Reaganism. We no longer have that common depth of emotion that used to shake up and move the world. Vice President George Bush claims we have to focus on values. I claim we have to rediscover our national feeling, and our collective moral conscious...