Word: claiming
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MILTON ("Gov.") SHAPP, 3rd b. rookie: Unknown quantity; some say his promotion from the minors was a clerical error, others claim he wandered onto the field one day and no one has had the heart to tell him the Little League game was cancelled...
...decidedly small scale, the exhibit just might be the last, as well as the first, to be dedicated to Nixonalia. In Washington, a three-judge federal panel denied the ex-President possession of the 42 million documents and 880 White House tapes accumulated during his Administration. Nixon's claim that the material belonged solely to him was dismissed as "without merit" by the court...
...public TV nationwide-doubt that. Says Program Manager Ron Hull: "If you see that in New York, you're going to say, 'Those Nebraska hicks stole NBC's symbol.' And that's not true." Lawyers for both networks are pondering whether NETV can claim prior use and force NBC to dust off the peacock...
Scholars know Simon Forman as the man who attended-and made notes on -four of Shakespeare's plays performed during the dramatist's lifetime. Historian A.L. Rowse, 72, knows Forman as something more: an extravagant conflation of Horatio Alger and Doctor Faustus whose claim to fame lies buried in a "vast mass" of barely decipherable manuscripts. Having burrowed through this trove of papers, Rowse now announces that Forman "has exposed himself as no one has done, not even Pepys or Boswell or Rousseau, and with more naive candor and ingenuous truthfulness than a Henry Miller...
Defenders of the status quo also claim that fractious competition would raise total costs by eliminating the advantages of economies of scale. Uncharitable critics point out that the USPS has hardly shown that its huge size offers great financial advantages. In any case, if it proves true that large concerns can deliver mail cheaper than small ones, then, as in any other such case, large firms will grow up and drive out their smaller, less efficient competitors. Still another argument is that private companies will refuse to deliber to remote rural areas, due to excessive cost. In this case...