Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republicans have 3%; the Democrats had 33% women, the Republicans have 31%; barely more than a third of the Democrats earned over $35,000 a year, v. more than half of the Republicans. The Democrats were also younger: 15% of their delegates were 30 or under, whereas the Republicans claim only 7% of that tender age; while 5% of the Democrats were 65 or older, 9% of the Republicans are in this range...
...American family reciting a litany of despair on divorce, delinquency, illegitimate births, venereal disease and other scourges. Dedicated conservatives fear such talk portends a huge new program that will further classify, regulate and meddle with the American family, compounding the damage that has already been done (they claim) by the hundreds of schemes enacted in recent years. The conservatives do not understand, claim Carter and Vice-Presidential Nominee Walter Mondale. What they advocate, they say, is new Government attention to correct old Government failures, to protect families against mindless, heartless, insensitive bureaucratic intrusions so that people can preserve and nurture...
...Paraguay, the dictatorial regime of Alfredo Stroessner this year reportedly launched a new wave of political arrests involving several hundred people; it is the third such wave since late 1974. Witnesses to conditions in Paraguay's primitive jails claim that detainees are regularly tortured. One recent victim was internationally known Anthropologist Miguel Chase Sardi, who was released in June after seven months in prison. Chase Sardi says he was drugged, beaten and dipped upside down in water to the point where his hearing may have been permanently damaged. Other methods of torture include electric shock, the extraction of fingernails...
...said "in a strong America able to preserve the freedom of its people." He added that Schweiker "has not become a captive of what I call the Washington buddy system." In sum, he blandly and incorrectly implied that they had few differences. Reagan did not make the almost mandatory claim that he had selected the best man to take over the presidency if necessary...
Cheered on by a wildly whooping and whistling crowd of 70,000, the United States' Bruce Jenner grimaced his way across the finish line late last Friday afternoon to claim the one Olympic honor more precious than gold: the title of "the world's greatest athlete...