Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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City Councilor Sandra Graham, however, yesterday repudiated August's claim of a "technical violation." "Steward knew exactly what he was doing," she said. "He's run for office too many times; he knows the election laws...
...true racist and sexist nature in some sort of warmed-over polemic. Yet such justification is not valid. Racism is racism, no matter who it favors and no matter what name it is given. You can call it "Affirmative Action" or "Aryan Heritage." One cannot logically or morally claim that it is illegitimate for a person's race or sex to adversely affect his evaluation by an employer or admissions committee while trying to justify a practice in which these very attributes are used to give the individual an advantage over other candidates. Affirmative action is racism, plain and simple...
...June 25, 1973) emphasize, every single Southwestern salesman has the same training, the same products, the same supervision, and the same opportunity. What a student does with that opportunity is entirely up to him. Not everyone finds that he likes the job, and that's his prerogative. But to claim that he was misled or made to do things he wasn't expecting, is to transfer responsibility for not liking it from where it belongs--squarely on him--to the job itself, which is exactly the same for all 8000 students who give it a try. Each student says...
Secret Profits. As it happens, Rizzoli does make money, and so do the other Italians on the avenue-or so they claim. Profits are kept secret, but yearly sales range from $500,000 to close to $5 million apiece, and even the most recent arrivals, such as Valentino and Carrano, both of whom opened last year, claim they are already breaking even...
Willie Julian Usery could easily lay claim to holding the most impossible job in Washington. His chief title is Secretary of Labor, but he is also a Special Assistant to the President and the Ford Administration's top labor-management mediator. As such, he is supposed to make sure that neither long strikes nor inflationary wage settlements slow the nation's economic recovery-in a year when contracts covering no fewer than 4.5 million workers expire and rising corporate profits are emboldening unions to demand fat increases in order to catch up with past inflation...