Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...normal situation any normal paper, one person would have to go," he adds. But at the Real Paper, where firing a staffer owner involved hearings and appeals (should the staff member claim his right to them), both men stayed It wasn't until months later, when staff members granted a new editor emergency powers to fire people, that one of the men was fired. He left without protest, but those who argue the Helen-of-Troy theory say the damage in bitterness was more than the paper could withstand in its infancy. Because of the triangle, says Southwick...
...they found themselves a little isolated and more alienated from their surroundings than they had been in the past. Many of them moved away from the political concerns they had grown up with to concentrate on criticizing the increasing complacency of American arts--an area where they could readily claim competence and occasionally claim an audience as well...
...that the drainage of more than 1.2 million acres of the nation's rich farm land below the dam is now insufficient Much of that land has become increasingly saline, reducing agricultural productivity by as much as 50%. For all that, the dam has some staunch defenders. They claim that Egypt eventually will not have to import any fertilizer; plants powered by electricity generated at Aswan* will turn out enough to make the country self-sufficient. The loss of the sardine industry, they say, is more than counterbalanced by the new fishing industry on Lake Nasser, which covers...
...brash ads open a new battle in a marketing war that so far has been fought mostly over menus. Jack's officials claim that Jack's Bonusburger begat McDonald's Big Mac-but concede that McDonald's Fillet O'Fish begat the Moby Jack. In early morning skirmishes, Breakfast Jacks fight Egg McMuffins. In its ads, Jack long tried to counter Ronald McDonald with Rodney Allen Rippy, a five-year-old who demonstrated on TV his inability to stuff a Jumbo Jack burger into his mouth...
...scope under the present Garrity plan in Boston. Most parents would want to see their children attend the same schools, and those would be the predominantly white schools, the same schools which generally have had better funding and facilities. If there is any right the state may justifiably claim, it is to establish racially unbiased access to decidedly public facilities. Altering bus schedules and destinations is a direct extension of that right...