Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, many young family doctors who have had no more than six months of training in each specialty claim to be superspecialists in all fields. Their fees are seldom lower but usually higher than those of nonsurgical specialists...
Obviously it would be untenable for a contemporary statesman to base concrete territorial demands on the Bible. But Begin often uses biblical allusions to support a Jewish historical claim-and the Administration does not intend to be caught unaware if he starts to cite the Good Book. Shortly after his election, he said he might discuss biblical references with the President at their first meeting. "He knows the Bible by heart," Begin told TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff, adding modestly, "I also know some parts...
...this week for amendments to the National Labor Relations Act that would make it easier for unions to organize and recruit new members. Labor chiefs have long complained that employers have taken advantage of various quirks in the labor law to hamper union organizing. This is one reason, they claim, why total union membership (now 20.1 million) has shriveled from almost a third of the U.S. work force in 1955, when the AFL-CIO was formed, to less than a quarter today...
...booked, pronouncing them "the best. I have short hair now; I look better than ever." And what about the many charges against her? "I have every good intention," she said. "In all my life, no one ever lost money with me." Why do some of her former investors claim otherwise? ''They confuse profits and losses...
...invaded an OPEC meeting in Vienna, killed three people and took 81 hostages. The hostages were gradually released in return for a $25 million ransom paid jointly by Saudi Arabia and Iran. The loot was split, $5 million for Carlos and $20 million for the Palestinians. The Palestinians also claim to make $5 million a year operating an illegal drug market inside Israel, using Oriental Jews as pushers...