Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration to promise financial assistance, but the agency reneged after other hard-pressed Texas towns flooded it with similar requests for funds. Lo-Vaca has offered to consider turning the gas back on if Crystal City would make a 20% down payment on what it owes. But city officials claim they do not have that much in the treasury. Meanwhile, Crystal City does not burn...
...Homestead Act of 1862 sent young men rushing westward by the thousands to stake their claim to 160 acres of public land, free of charge. More than a century later, the range has become the home of agribusiness conglomerates and huge farms of thousands of acres; the lone homesteader who tilled his quarter section (onefourth of a square mile, which totals 640 acres) has gone the way of the American buffalo...
More than a year ago Massachusetts Fair Share representatives wrote to President Bok asking to meet with Harvard officials to discuss the group's claim that the University should increase its payments to the City of Boston...
Group spokesmen repeated their claim that Harvard should pay more than twice the $2 million it now pays Boston...
Rudolph Valentino can justly lay claim to a certain degree of historical importance in the evolution of American cinema. During his extraordinary success in the '20s he revolutionized the prevailing conception of how a leading man should look and act. And his rise to the top of the silent film industry, the nation's newest rage, represented a sociological phenomenon in itself, given Valentino's immigrant background and the xenophobic America of the '20s. Russell's film never pauses to reflect on the significance of Valentino's legacy, however. The director seems too obsessed with the glory and worship heaped...