Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Saigon lawyer, has been chairman of the N.L.F. since 1960. His main function, however, apparently is to lend credence by his presence to the Communists' claim that the front and the P.R.G. actually are coalitions in which power is shared with nonCommunists. Mrs. Binh was the Viet Cong's chief negotiator in Paris and is one of the movement's most visible and best-publicized representatives. But Western analysts believe that the real power in the P.R.G. is wielded by Phat, a former architect who was the N.L.F.'s vice chairman and chief theoretician...
...French embassy compound in Phnom-Penh, staffed only by a vice consul and a cipher clerk, was jammed with about 400 French citizens, some 400 Cambodians who claim French blood and about two dozen foreign journalists and representatives of international organizations. According to officials in Paris, sanitary conditions within the refuge were poor, intestinal disease was rife and there were serious shortages of food, water and medicine...
...company's profits unacceptably low. Shortly thereafter, he lost a $5 million Sears, Roebuck account after jacking up prices too abruptly, then lost more business after severely tightening credit terms for customers. A day after Moeller's arrest, Sponge Rubber Products' attorneys filed an insurance claim, asking $37 million for loss of business, $14 million for the plant's contents and $10 million for the building itself...
There were precedents for this, like Alberto Giacometti's floor sculpture of 1932, Woman with Her Throat Cut, which anticipates Caro so thoroughly that it is difficult to believe Curator Rubin's claim, in his long and other wise formidably reasoned catalogue essay, that it "had no direct influence" on him. But in the '60s Caro's horizontality was liberating. Floating, perky, mass denying, bland of surface, sprightly in color-how refreshing it all looked after the bronze rhetoric of what Herbert Read called "the geometry of fear...
...farms along the Nile. Thus it has been necessary to increase the use of imported chemical fertilizers on farms downstream from the dam. Environmentalists also contend that elimination of the silt flow has increased the rate of erosion along the Mediterranean coast adjoining the Nile Delta. In addition, they claim that the absence of the organic matter in the silt in the waters at the river's mouth has deprived sardines and shrimp of an adequate food supply. As a result, Egypt's sardine industry, which used to produce 8,000 tons of the fish annually...