Word: claimed
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...thirds vote to oust him. The politically astute Hastings will be arguing the case of his career. Already he is toning down his charges of racism and stressing instead his assertion of innocence and the issue of fairness. He may try to convince the Senators of his claim that the proceedings smack of double jeopardy. He can also be expected to underline the fact that the last federal judge to be removed by the Senate, Harry Claiborne of Las Vegas, in 1986, had previously been convicted of tax fraud by a criminal court. But in one unexpected sense, Hastings will...
Navy brass had feared for weeks that the tragedy of Iran Air 655 would claim another victim: the controversial Aegis system aboard the U.S.S. Vincennes. How could that complex network of radar and computers have mistaken a civilian airliner for an attacking fighter plane? But when the fragmentary results of Rear Admiral William Fogarty's investigation leaked last week, blame fell not on the machines but on the men who were operating them. Under the pressure of combat, Pentagon sources say, the overwrought sailors on the Vincennes misread the radar data about the oncoming Airbus and passed faulty information...
They allegedly used a technique called stock parking, in which an investor sells shares temporarily to someone else to hide their real ownership from Government agencies like the Internal Revenue Service. In this case, Princeton/Newport was allegedly parking stocks at Drexel so that the New Jersey firm could claim short-term tax losses on the sale. The laws against racketeering, which involves repeated crimes carried out by a person or a business, have traditionally been used against the Mafia. Bringing racketeering charges against stock swindlers is an aggressive new tactic in the war on white-collar crime...
Even Dukakis' adversaries do not claim that the harbor fiasco is the result of his insensitivity to the environment. "Dukakis is decent, honest, intelligent, and he believes in process," says former State Judge Paul Garrity, whose rulings eventually spurred the state to begin cleaning up. "But if the process isn't there, he won't act." Alden Raine, Dukakis' director of economic development, excuses this lack of leadership: "To place the blame on the Governor is to assume that the other pieces were in place to clean up the harbor, which they were...
...Jesus did not claim to be the Messiah. Such assertions represent the church's later belief, which Gospel writers inserted into the life of Christ...