Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other members of SftP say that in presenting opposing views of controversial scientific research, newspapers and television reporters often rely heavily on information supplied by SftP, while rarely giving the organization credit. And they claim it was largely unrecognized efforts of SftP as an organization that were responsible for ending the controversial screening of male babies for the XYY chromosome pattern at the Boston Lying-in Hospital, which is associated with Harvard. Here too, they say, SftP's efforts may have had an effect far beyond the local level: Beckwith says that a recent survey by the Children's Defense...
...committee, in appeal, claimed it had done its best, but that Boston has always been a city of neighborhoods that desired and cultivated a neighborhood school system--the "ethnic purity" argument, if you will. Given the board's past efforts, however, this claim sounded like Prime Minister Vorster of South Africa explaining today that, after segregating blacks in undersized, underdeveloped "tribal homelands" ten years ago, he simply could not eliminate apartheid because the blacks demanded and thrived on homelands...
...large part of that income from taxes. For example, under present law the interest paid on a loan while a building is under construction, and taxes too, can be deducted as a current expense. Since the building produces no income until it is finished, the owner or owners can claim a large loss, often exceeding the total amount they have invested. The new bill would stretch out such deductions over several years; in the case of other tax shelters, the deductions are limited to the amount of money that investors have actually put "at risk...
...Limits sharply the right to claim business deductions for offices in the home and for vacation property that is used by the owner and rented...
...feeling that there just might be one instance where, say, five colors were needed instead of only four. Indeed, when Scientific American's puckish columnist Martin Gardner last year announced that such a "counter example" had indeed been found, it stunned math buffs everywhere-until they realized the claim was an April Fool...