Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truth is that good food in America is little more than a memory and a hope," claim the authors in their introduction, entitled "The Rape of the Palate." "We were one of the best-fed countries in the world; we have become one of the poorest." This tragedy, according to the Hesses, is as much the result of myths which Americans have been led to believe as it is the consequence of modern methods of mass food production. The high priests of gourmandise and nutrition--home economists, restaurant critics, cookbook writers, food historians, FDA officials--have all contributed...
Will the little "black boxes" tell who was responsible for the loss of 575 lives at Tenerife? No, the bombers of Las Palmas Airport already hold claim to that honor...
...damn lie to suggest that there isn't enough competition in the oil business," charged Union Oil Chairman and President Fred Hartley in response to Carter's claim that there was not. While praising the thrust of Carter's energy alarm, General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy protested that some of the President's Washington-oriented advisers, far more than Carter, "are influenced by their own life-styles and they don't understand the dimension of the American public." A less biased criticism of Carter's plan was that its measures were far milder than those suggested by the apocalyptic terms...
...more than the white Rhodesians or other African colonists, the South African whites have a legitimate historical claim to their land. There are many who are appalled by the continued subjugation of the nonwhite majority. On their own these moderates might be prepared to make significant concessions, even though they too may be fearful about their future should a black majority come to power. In any case real political control remains in the hands of verkrampte (literally, cramped, or narrow-minded) Afrikaners-a proud, stubborn, Calvinist people with an imperious sense of their divine mission to lead Africa...
...Panama Canal to prevent what now seems almost inevitable: restoration of diplomatic relations between Washington and Havana. In recent weeks the Administration has lifted travel restrictions for Americans who wish to visit Cuba and begun bilateral talks with Havana on a new fishing agreement-necessary since both countries claim 200-mile offshore limits, but are only 90 miles apart. One plan currently under consideration by Washington is to set up an American-staffed "interest" section attached to the Swiss Embassy in Havana, which now represents the U.S., as a first step toward normalization of relations...