Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family living on the taxpayers' money in the White House? "All personal expenses are paid for out of my own pocket," said the President, disclaiming any "mooching off the American taxpayers." How come married couples pay higher tax rates than singles? What about the Ottawa Indians' land-claim payments, a Kentuckian asked...
...that they might be important. Yet one of the items in her cache was the 1794 treaty that her ancestors had struck with Massachusetts; in it, they ceded virtually all their land to the state. The find set off what has since become one of the largest Indian land claims in modern U.S. history. The 3,500 Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians in what is now Maine are fighting to get title to as much as half the entire state, which they claim was wrongly taken from them. Last week the Maine Indians moved a big step closer to success when...
...whom now reside on three reservations in northern Maine that cover 22,000 acres, subsist largely on low-paying jobs and welfare-like many whites. Originally, they demanded more than 10 million acres, or one-half of the state. But Justice puts the probable extent of their supportable claim at 5 million acres. Justice is still researching the historical ownership of some 3 million additional acres. The Indians agreed to put off claims to 2 million acres of valuable coastal property (where 40% of Maine's 1 million non-Indians live) in return for money...
...parents' law suit will also claim that subsequent serious complications resulted from UHS negligence, Christopher H. Munch, the student's father, said yesterday...
...center of the dispute is the union's claim that Gorski's drive to improve the force's efficiency by increasing the size of each officer's beat and instituting a de facto freeze on hiring has lowered morale on the force. Union officials say there is a "deep mistrust of the chief of police" among union members as a result of the changes, and would like to see a reduction in working hours to make up for the increased workload. One union spokesman suggested that Gorski's reorganization might be part of a larger University plan "to rid itself...