Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bolster the local economy, Lance gave high-risk loans to people willing to start small businesses making tufted carpets. Today the carpet factories are the area's leading employers. To upgrade the local cattle, Lance had his bank buy purebred bulls, then leased them to farmers. His jaunty claim: "We have the only full-service, bull-service bank in the country." As later became all too clear, Lance also regarded Calhoun National as the family cookie jar-a convenient source for no-interest loans...
...summers scouting a 300-mile stretch of the St. John River to see if the fearsome Furbish could be found elsewhere. Now the engineers have proudly announced the discovery of no fewer than five clumps of louseworts safely beyond the proposed dam site. What is more, they claim, the exotic flower can be cultivated elsewhere. Although the Dickey-Lincoln project, first authorized by Congress in 1965, still has other hurdles to clear before construction begins, the lousewort no longer appears to be an obstacle in its path...
...individual unions, and just now they are in a rebellious mood. After the congress, some union leaders hinted that they were fully prepared to flout the twelve-month rule; Arthur Scargill, Communist leader of the Yorkshire miners, said, "This decision makes no difference to the miners' wage claim." They want a pay increase on Nov. 1, rather than in March, which would be twelve months after their last contract negotiation. A midwinter miners' strike remains a possibility. Privately, both union leaders and employers are predicting that the next round of settlements will fall...
...things never change. Big business might well be a game, but it is not played with Monopoly money, and at the end of the year people still have to look at the bottom line and see how much they owe the kitty. It simply does not seem realistic to claim, as Maccoby does, that...
...suit, filed in the District Court of Boston in 1974, claims only the 238 acres of the town's common land, including the environmentally fragile cliffs, but many non-Indian residents fear a precedent that could allow the Wamponoags to claim land that is now owned privately, as well. Indeed, 'the Indians' lawyer has stated that the same principle that allows the Indians to claim the common lands applies to all the land in Gay Head and some Indian factions want to assert that legal right...