Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ranged north to San Francisco, working with Teamsters on shakedowns of employers. But Rizzitello may soon be taken off the streets for up to three years. He is scheduled to be sentenced May 23 for a penny-ante crime?fraudulently collecting $21,780 on a false insurance claim that his business-supply firm had been burglarized...
...article put "star" ratings and obscene comments on the quality, longevity and versatility of the effort next to the names of 36 MIT students. Together, the two women claim to have sampled...
...Critics claim Garguilo has been extremely political in her job, citing the time she opposed White's self-serving charter reform package, an item which falls under her broad legal mandate but not within the general public's perception of her duties. Nobody accuses Garguilo of specifically favoring or hounding anyone; it is more an "us" against "her" situation. However, the finance commission operates in a city with few ethical norms in its politics, and to expect it to function without being political is like Sen. Edward R. Brooke (R-Mass.) exploited their position to gain higher office...
...himself. The judge pressured Jackson into accepting a licensed attorney for the main trial, and when the jury acquitted him two weeks ago, Jackson petulantly refused to thank the lawyer. Still another self-defender was Clifford Irving, author of the bogus Howard Hughes biography. He responded to an IRS claim for more than $120,000 in back taxes by composing a 50-page legal brief and arguing the case in court...
...Founder and publisher of Der Spiegel, the West German weekly newsmagazine, Agnostic Augstein is an angry product of Catholic schooling. He asks how the church "dares to appeal to a Jesus who never existed, to teachings he never taught, to a mandate he never issued, and to a claim that he was God's son which he never presumed for himself." When it came out in Germany in 1972, the book was attacked by Christian thinkers of all varieties; Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner condemned it as a "frontal and total attack" on Christ. Augstein, however, has merely selected...