Word: claiming
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...room to argue over the economics of expanding sales to reduce the development costs for the home country, and exports do keep the production lines continually operating. But Sampson only cites the age-old argument about the "deterrent" effect of weapons to toy with its absurdity. The weapons companies' claim of merely selling to those in need or able to afford an "honest price" becomes even more painfully comic when Sampson shows how former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and his successors turned a cold war military aid program into a high pressure export industry...
Lance was on solid grounds of indignation in claiming that Campbell's charge was wholly unsupported by anyone else, that no one on the committee had asked him about the claim before the report reached the press, and that Campbell had consistently told his lawyers, the prosecuting attorneys, and the federal judge who presided over his guilty plea that no one had conspired with him in his thefts. Yet headlines had, indeed, linked Lance with the embezzlement charge-inevitably, considering the Senators' statements...
...1950s, Eagleton charged that "here in 1977 we have a newer technique-guilt by accumulation-every day someone will hurl a charge at Mr. Lance and a little bit more mud gets on the character and reputation of Mr. Lance." He criticized Ribicoff and Percy for spreading the vague claim that Lance had been accused of new illegalities-but never revealing what they were. In a closed session of the committee, the two leaders briefed the other Senators on what they had found and, said Eagleton, he heard only rehashes of what had been in the newspapers...
Playboy Enterprises has long written off nearly all of Hefner's lavish living costs as promotional expenses. The Internal Revenue Service has filed a claim against the company for $7.7 million in additional taxes for the years 1970 through 1972; Hefner's expenses, among many other things, are involved. He has put the 54-room Playboy mansion in Chicago up for sale (asking price: $2.5 million) and moved to a 29-room Xanadu in Beverly Hills; Daniels flies out every other week to brief him, but otherwise they rarely confer on day-to-day operations. There is talk...
...most of the plays being produced at Harvard this fall could say about some aspect of their lives, "But, there must be some mistake!" Mistakes are, in fact, the only common theme running through a theater season that is so varied it is probably a mistake for me to claim that these plays have anything in common at all. But maybe, as they say, we can learn from our errors...