Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clothing manufacturers claim that sales are up because of Ford's well-publicized skiing interest. Pipe and tobacco dealers have visibly benefited. The old-fashioned martini is again an honorable drink after the long, dark season of the daiquiri (Kennedy), low-calorie root beer (Johnson) and skimmed milk (Nixon...
...parents is a serious problem. Many urban Americans simply do not have the room to house an elderly father or mother, especially in New York and other cities where an extra room means paying an enormous increase in rent or buying a larger home than they can afford. Others claim that the presence of a parent in the home strains marital relations and puts tremendous pressures on children. Still others just cannot take the tension involved in caring for senile parents...
Most companies claim that mandatory retirement is necessary to maintain efficiency, preserve profits and clear the way for younger employees. But gerontologists find the arguments unfair. There is no evidence that an individual's efficiency or creativity declines dramatically once he passes his 65th birthday; indeed, many people-from scientists to craftsmen to musicians* have done their best work during their declining years. Nor can it be assumed that most elderly Americans are too feeble to support themselves. At least half of those now over 65 are physically capable of doing a day's work. Mandatory retirement...
...says it used predatory tactics. Barr retorted in court last week that the company's success resulted simply from "better products, greater productive efficiency, better service, right judgments about the future at key periods of time and the willingness [of management] to back those judgments." To support its claim that its triumphs have been based on quality, IBM is likely to call as witnesses purchasing agents of its biggest (between $4 billion and $6 billion annually) customer: the U.S. Government itself...
...mortgage brokers in Southern Florida. According to investigators, the Ponzi-like scheme worked this way: the developers bought nearly worthless tracts of land, subdivided them and sold homesites at inflated prices; they used the proceeds to pay high interest on bogus notes sold to investors under a false claim that the notes were secured by first mortgages on the homesites. When the recession slowed lot sales, many developers defaulted. Investors who tried to foreclose discovered that the real first mortgages were held by banks and other original lenders, so that they had no claim. Last week TIME Atlanta Correspondent Jack...