Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both papers claim that editors, not reporters, are the only ones who can promise anonymity. While a little-known Pioneer Press & Dispatch policy stipulated this in 1982, the Star Tribune had no set rule; the paper has since issued a "clarification," giving editors final authority. But, Sturdevant testified, "I did not understand that I needed prior permission to make the promise...
Republicans will crow about low inflation and low unemployment. They'll claim full credit for the thaw in relations with the Soviet Union. And they'll talk a lot about the bad old days when Jimmy Carter was president and gas cost nearly a $1.50 a gallon...
...smartly executed. The FBI, led by burly, surly Alonzo Mosely (Yaphet Kotto), wants the accountant to testify against his former employers. The gangsters want him dead before that happens. And Marvin Dorfler (John Ashton), a rival bounty hunter, dull witted and implacable, wants to abduct the abductee and claim the fee for himself...
...money matters, Dukakis likes to remember the way his father always urged on him "Oikonomia! Oikonomia!" That applies to more than the price of a non- Filene's suit. The Greek ideal of oikonomia (literally, house management) is the optimum disposal of one's resources. Bush's claim that Dukakis has fetched his politics from some liberal boutique in Harvard could not be further from the truth. He was never susceptible to fads. He does not shop boutiques, but bargain basements, wanting the same old things at a better price...
...billion farm-subsidies program already approved in the 1988 budget. As the drought tightens supplies and pushes up commodity prices, the Government will not have to pay out as much in price-support subsidies. In effect, Congress is recycling price supports in the form of disaster relief. The legislation, claim its supporters, would not add a penny to the Government's budget deficit...