Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finding Hoffa, dead or alive, any private citizen could claim the $200,000 money put up by the family...
Papal Displeasure. Just about everyone with some claim to public authority seized the opportunity to take a poke at Madrid. In Turkey, Ankara's Mayor Vedat Dalokay not only denounced the Franco regime for having "committed a crime against all humanity," but ordered that the supply of water and electricity to the local Spanish embassy be cut off (the Turkish government quickly overruled...
Official estimates say unreported rapes would place the figure at least three times as high, and some analysts claim as many as 500,000 people a year are at tacked by rapists. Yet few rapists, perhaps 2% of offenders, are actually convicted and jailed...
...survival, it needs a strong surge in Christmas sales. But that may prove difficult to achieve. As recently as last month, Grant's banks renewed $541 million in loans to the company. To ensure that the stores remain well stocked, the banks agreed to subordinate their own claim and let the chain's merchandise suppliers have first call on $300 million of the company's merchandise assets. Even so, some vendors still dragged their feet in supplying the chain, presumably because they were not sure they would be paid...
This simple exercise is the cureall, its adherents claim, for almost everything from high blood pressure and lack of energy to alcoholism and poor sexual performance. "I use it the way I'd use a product of our technology to overcome nervous tension," says Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan. "It's a nonchemical tranquilizer with no unpleasant side effects...