Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rates can get very steep if the copy is not "clean," typists claim. Typists said they charge between $3 and $5.60 an hour if they cannot read the copy or have to do a lot of editing
Many Englishmen are particularly worried about devolution for Scotland−Wales is less of a problem−since a semiautonomous sub-government in Edinburgh would eventually lay claim to most of the North Sea oil revenues that are counted upon to bail Britain out of the economic doldrums. On the other hand, if the legislation fails, Labor is in deep trouble: its command of Parliament depends on the vote of 41 Scottish M.P.s. According to one recent poll, 30% of Labor voters in Scotland will switch to another party−most of them to the Scottish Nationalists−if self...
...claim is rock solid for the U.S., if not the world. According to Christian Life magazine's annual survey, no church comes close to First Baptist in Sunday school attendance. It draws an incredible average weekly turnout of nearly...
...Britain, 60,000 members of slimming clubs claim that collectively they shed 1,500 tons of fat a year. In West Germany, a ten-year-old Schlankheits-welle, or slimming wave, has helped cut annual per capita consumption of potatoes from 109 kilos to 92 kilos. Even in France, there has been a notable move by embonpoint watchers from the sauce-rich grande cuisine to simpler, lower-calorie meals. Throughout Europe these days, all too solid citizens refer to the latest weight-paring magazines and diets in the awed terms once reserved for three-star restaurants. They seem to have...
...warn that whatever the economic merits, letting oil prices go up so close to a presidential election is no way to win votes. The Democrats, who have consistently opposed swift decontrol and high oil prices on the ground that the inflationary impact would threaten economic recovery, can now claim, with some justice, a major political victory...