Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kept everyone else at a distance, he might have done better. But outsiders, ranging from ) sportswriters like Ring Lardner (played by Sayles himself) to Supergambler Arnold Rothstein, are present and superficially accounted for. They take screen time away from the team, where the only ones who lay full claim to our attention are the great but aging pitcher Eddie Cicotte (David Strathairn); Third Baseman Weaver (John Cusack), an appealing victim; and Kid Gleason, their manager (John Mahoney), who is suspicious of his charges yet sympathetic to them. The rest of the club, including Charlie Sheen as Hap Felsch, is reduced...
...careful thought and high ideals. "I have never given a red cent to a panhandler, and I never will," declares Businessman Wade Lewis, 47, of Greenville, N.C. "I won't give anybody anything, but I will help somebody go through a trash can to pull out cans and claim the nickel deposit. People need to know that they have to work to get what they need...
...verminous tenements rub up beside the million-dollar developments; the high-rises tower over the ghettos. It is hard for those who trip on a beggar as they leave a restaurant, where they may have just spent more on a meal than some people earn in a week, to claim that they cannot spare some change. The question, rather, is, Should they...
...State Department employee-testing policy, in March another decided that the < mandatory testing of workers by a Nebraska health agency violates the amendment's ban on unreasonable searches. In June a federal district court in Los Angeles produced a major victory for foes of AIDS tracing in addressing the claim of a gay man who was tossed out of an alcohol rehabilitation program at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood, Calif. Judge Pamela Ann Rymer ruled that a person fingered by an AIDS test can be protected by the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which bars discrimination against the handicapped by institutions...
Baker. No, that is not true. What you had was a proliferation of various rumors, some of which related to this issue, but many of which related to other issues. Allegations like the claim that Quayle paid $50,000 to get into the National Guard...