Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LONG HAS it been? In years, moderate; in discomfort, boundless. Other teams can claim longer dry spells, but none more humiliation. Others can claim deeper valleys, but none a farther fall. None can claim more vindictive, derisive press, none more vicious abuse, none a longer twelve years. But a tree grows in Carthage and the Yankees are winners again...
...also be learned by a) using some common sense or b) checking their past response to a similar situation and then reprinting it verbatim. Category #4--Again, a one-man grouping. Although others have tried to advance up the ladder into this prestigious class, the sole individual who can claim membership is track mentor Bill McCurdy, the Henny Youngman of Dillon Field House and a retired lieutenant colonel of the United States Army Reserve...
Those in favor of this recombinant DNA research emphasize its potential benefits including the ability for plants to fix nitrogen, the potential for finding out more about cancer cells and the development of cheaper ways to make insulin. They claim that the review board should recommend that the Cambridge City Council lift its ban on the research enacted this summer and allow the work to be done under federal guidelines released earlier this year...
...religious holidays" claim appears to be a shibboleth in that both Christmas and Good Friday conveniently fall within recess periods...
...claim of neutrality is actually a mask for a value judgement: if Yom Kippur were judged to be a pressing enough matter, then it would be obvious that a significant problem exists, one that ought to be dealt with respectfully--and openly. The implied condescension in the current policy becomes apparent by considering a rough analogy, viz. inviting a group of people from another culture to stay at your house, and then treating, not their quirks, but a fundamental aspect of their way of life, as though it didn't exist. David B. Ackerman...