Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Using Ronald Reagan's arguments for the U.S. to keep control of the Panama Canal, perhaps we should lay claim to Western Europe. After all, much of postwar Europe was "bought, paid for and built" by the Marshall Plan...
Plainly, the pressures on Lance from politicians, press and business were not subsiding as quickly as the White House once hoped they would. If anything, they were intensifying. White House mail was running 2 to 1 against Lance. Various bankers challenged his claim that some $450,000 in overdrafts amassed by him and his relatives from Calhoun First National Bank, of which he was president, was "typical of Southern banking practices." Said a spokesman for the Amercan Bankers Association: "We don't see that as normal or typical, whether it's Southern or Northern or whatever." The President...
...Washington. On hand will be 15 heads of state from Latin America, the largest gathering of its kind in the hemisphere since 1967. Whether this televised inter-American consensus will prove effective is another matter. White House mail is running 8 to 1 against the treaty. Administration head counters claim that 58 Senators are already willing to vote in favor of the pact; only nine more would give Carter the two-thirds approval he needs, but they may prove hard to get. Opponents, meanwhile, talk of stalling the treaty with parliamentary motions or hobbling it with reservations...
...Administration increased the "target price" from $2.47 to $3. When market prices fall below the target, Washington will pay out the difference between the loan rate and the target figure-that is 75? per bu. Total cost of the program: $4.4 billion, or so the Administration estimates. Some skeptics claim that the cost will be more like $8 billion or $9 billion...
...Bobby, a jailbird composer (Peter Fonda), whose best song is stolen and recorded by a country-and-western star who hears the piece when he drops in on the pen to cut a concert record (as many such singers do) in an authentic environment. Paroled, Fonda sets out to claim credit and royalties for his creation, and is falsely accused of wounding the thief in a scuffle over the matter. He then falls in with Tina (Susan Saint James), who has learned most of the music business's sharper angles as an underpaid back-up singer and who dreams...