Word: claiming
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This is not to claim Sheehan's work useless; she has found, after a grueling and frustrating search (as she describes in an afterword) a woman who allowed her, and, vicariously, the reader, into her home, to observe, to question and to describe. Sheehan is familiar enough to be there when Santana discovers her son is mainlining heroin; but is that so routine that Santana accepts it in stride, without a moan or a whimper even? So it appears from the description the reader is offered...
...that time, unfortunately, the speakers had lost a chunk of their audience. Few viewers who had sat through the first 82 minutes could claim that they had gained refreshing new insights into economic problems and policies. Said Harvard's Otto Eckstein, a liberal member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "I've got to teach freshman economics on Monday and I'd be hard put to find something useful in the debate to teach them. The candidates just completely missed a grand educational opportunity." Yale's Robert Triffin, another member of TIME'S Board, found the debate "desperately dull...
Ford, on the other hand, fell into an odd statement in his summation, claiming that "our children have been the victims of mass education," without ever explaining why one of the nation's most cherished educational goals is wrong or what he proposed to do about it. Ford claimed far too much credit for a $28 billion tax reduction proposed for this year: it was largely an extension of last year's cuts?which, in turn, had reached their level only at the insistence of the Congress. Indeed, at another point, Ford replied to Carter's complaints about...
Ford was also misleading in deriding Carter's claim that, if the economy and employment grow as rapidly as he anticipates, by fiscal 1981 there could be a $60 billion surplus in federal revenues. Ford's own economic advisers have projected an even greater possible fiscal gain: $75.5 billion. Nor was Ford accurate in claiming that current Georgia Governor George Busbee had found the state's Medicaid program "a shambles" on following Carter into office. The term does not appear in the Senate Finance subcommittee testimony Ford had cited. What Busbee had done, in fact, was to assail the Federal...
...contenders share many traits. Both are men of integrity and decency. The cornerstone of Ford's campaign is his claim to have restored trust to the White House. Among the Democratic candidates who competed in the primaries, Carter was the first to perceive that trust would probably be the major issue in the campaign. Each is offering his record of probity as an index to his trustworthiness. Both are devoted family men and each has a deep religious faith. Carter is a born-again evangelical; Ford is an Episcopalian who participates in weekly White House prayer meetings. Says Georgetown...