Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HALF years ago, a frozen orange and grapefruit were thrown through a dorm window at Currier House where a Black student was sitting. The assailants, calling themselves the "negro hit squad" phoned in to claim responsibility...
Walsh wrote that Harvard enjoys "the best of both worlds" because the University can "invoke tax-exempt status for affiliated housing...turn around and rent it at full market value...claim the exemption and thereby be assured that those units [affiliated housing complexes] are not under rent control...
...financial shift is the capstone of several U.N. triumphs and accomplishments. In the past eight months, a number of the world's more intractable conflicts have begun to yield to mediation, and though the U.N. cannot claim to be the sole cause of the breakthroughs, its efforts have played an important role. Among the high points...
...after his employer, the Siemens electric company, paid up to $10 million in ransom. The weekly magazine Stern said last week that a mysterious detective involved in Schmidt's release had also been negotiating on behalf of Cordes' company, the Frankfurt chemical firm Hoechst AG. The company labeled that claim "outrageous...
...Lycra, are strongly discouraged in New York public and private schools, tolerated at South High School in Minneapolis, where they are currently very popular, but dismissed as flashy by students at Country Day School in Charlotte, N.C. Traditionalists, who would not wear such shorts even on an Exercycle, claim that standard uniforms (blazers for boys, pleated hopscotch skirts for girls) have social as well as practical value. For one thing, they ease the economic burden of providing kids with money for trendy items like mock reptile sneakers, dressy ensembles featuring bold plaids and checks or color-dunked designer sweats...