Word: claiming
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...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...
...still other letters, ones generally less favorable than those from strict conservatives, claim that the events at the rally and subsequent statements by Ebert--including a letter to 118 medical school deans calling Davis irresponsible--threatened Davis's academic freedom. Davis himself believes academic freedom is now the prime issue at stake. "The message seems to be," he says, "if you violate the taboo on public discussion of this subject you need not only risk misunderstanding but you risk excommunication. If such a policy is allowed to prevail in our universities what will be its effect on the future...
...year-old Harvard Ph.D. who received a perfect 800 score on the LSAT, said he does not believe the district court judge who dismissed the claim adequately considered Krohn's argument that Harvard is subject to laws ensuring fair hearings on all its decisions and an appeals process...
Nader's revisionist critics claim that his emotional commitment occasionally overwhelms his acute powers of reasoning. In an unusually vivid public display of bad manners, Nader a month ago fortified that claim. Apparently frustrated by resistance to his pet auto safety device, the inflatable air bag, Nader laced into Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman Jr. during hearings on the subject. The issue "is whether William T. Coleman has the guts to stand up to General Motors and the Ford Motor Company as he had the guts to stand up on civil rights years ago," Nader said bitingly...
...Perdue. Last week, when many chickens were selling for 49? per Ib. in New York-area supermarkets, Perdue broilers fetched 77? per Ib. Frank Perdue, of course, would claim that the premium is justified by the large and juicy breasts of his yellow-skinned chickens (he feeds them marigold petals), but clearly, something is also due to the appeal of his image...