Word: claiming
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...Democrat from Idaho who may run for his party's presidential nomination in 1976, the committee has been zealously holding private hearings since May 15. After the Rockefeller Commission handed in its report, Church accused it of ducking the assassination issue. As to the Vice President's claim that the CIA was not guilty of "major" sins, Church angrily declared: "I don't regard murder plots as a 'minor' matter...
...referendum, he was handicapped in dealing with the nation's economic problems-particularly with the politically sensitive issue of wage restraint-by the Labor Party divisions over the EEC. Even now Wilson cannot afford to purge the union-backed left, but the referendum has seriously undermined its claim to speak for "the people." (In South Yorkshire, the strongest Labor county in Britain and the scene of the most intensive union-backed antiMarket campaign, the vote was 63.4% pro-Market.) With his authority thus strengthened in dealing with the unions, Wilson is shortly expected to reshuffle his Cabinet...
...money. Slowly the $27 million in pennies and nickels collected from private contributors in the '60s had been whittled away, first by operating expenses and constant re-drawings of the plans, and then by inflation--something even the Kennedy's aren't immune to. Library Corporation officials now claim with what is left in the coffer the cost of building a memorial like the originally planned complex is out of reach...
...inner-city schools. We met two weeks ago with Philadelphia alumni to try to get some kind of established committee to look into why we can't get more students to apply from the inner city. I think we can do a better job in Philadelphia." But Philadelphians claim if the University wants to get more students from these untapped schools, it will have to do more than supply once-a-year encouragement...
...addition of Audronike Janus as assistant athletic director to the athletic department is another important boost to the woman's program. Funding for the newly formed Radcliffe track team is another step towards the fulfillment of Harvard's claim of athletics...