Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buried treasure dates from the Great Depression and World War II, when the schools urged children to open accounts. Many did not claim their savings when they graduated, and by 1950 the city's public schools had amassed more than $90,000. Later the dormant savings were put in a high-yield trust fund but never tapped. Last week the state assembly passed a bill that will allow the city to use the fund's annual interest of up to $40,000 for college scholarships...
...Morley, an expert on Japan and author of Pictures from the Water Trade. "It has had wars, it has colonized parts of Asia, but apart from that its experience in dealing with other nations is still very primitive." Nor have many older Japanese been free of an attitude -- some claim an almost racist conviction -- that Japan's uniqueness makes it impossible for others to copy its success...
...challenge was issued only minutes after Iron Mike knocked out Michael Spinks to retain his claim as the world's most-feared ring warrior...
Last month, however, Lilly suddenly announced that it would not sell Spike to Peru or the U.S. Government. Reason: the herbicide had not been fully tested in Peru. The company was undoubtedly reacting to protests by environmentalists, who claim that use of the herbicide on the Andes' delicate ecosystem could turn it into a desert. Just after Lilly's announcement, Walter Gentner, a recently retired research scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, complained that he had been pressured by the State Department to condone use of Spike in Peru before its impact had been assessed...
...Cipollone's name will not be lost among the cancer statistics, because as a final gesture, she turned her stubbornness against the tobacco companies that sold her the cigarettes. She and her husband Tony filed a liability claim, which she made him promise to pursue after her death, though no one had ever won such a case against a cigarette maker. Last week the five-year-old lawsuit made history when a six-member federal jury in Newark ordered the Liggett Group, maker of the Chesterfield and L&M brands, to pay Tony Cipollone $400,000 in compensatory damages...