Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parallel claim was made by Robert Bloom, now Deputy Comptroller of the Currency and a career bureaucrat who was acting comptroller when Lance's nomination was approved by the Senate. Appearing before a House banking subcommittee, Bloom fielded a barrage of questions about why he had not alerted Congress to Lance's banking practices...
Justice officials claim that more than 3,000 convictions have been obtained as a result of the program. And according to Graham, only seven of 2,000 witnesses have been killed-in each case because they refused to follow instructions from U.S. marshals. But Congress was not specifically informed until 1974 about the false-identity aspects of the scheme and thus never got to ask any questions about its legal or moral ramifications. One question suggested by Graham: "Should the Government officially adopt a program dedicated to telling lies?" Another, clearly, is how the courts should cope with the problem...
Under such pressure, city officials asked the state legislature for reform. As a result, Neville has once more delayed pressing her claim. Meanwhile, tiring of such legal imbroglios, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in a separate but similar case, has pushed the legislature to act on the question of sovereign immunity by the end of 1978. If the legislators do not allow citizens to make "reasonable" claims against the government by then, the court threatened to abolish the doctrine on its own-and without an limit to government liability...
...monuments, China's cultural treasures have been sealed off behind curtains of barbed wire, converted to barracks, or utterly destroyed by the Red Guards during their Cultural Revolution. Leys' long list of such monuments reads like a catalogue of a vanished past. Certainly it belies the propaganda claim that Peking has carefully preserved the country's ancient heritage...
...class into the U.P. coalition against the foreign and big capital that controlled the economy. Still others will say that the U.P. should have given up trying to conciliate the middle classes, and forced through more radical legislation, rather than abiding by the rules of parliamentary procedure; these observers claim the U.P. was naive in its belief that it could present a firm challenge to the capitalists without facing armed struggle...