Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many off-campus residents, like their less than wealthy predecessors, claim that they save money by living off campus. One Radcliffe senior says, "I pay half as much now for food as I did when I lived in Eliot House. And rent is a lot cheaper too." But generally speaking, expenses for students living off campus are about the same as they are for those who live in the Houses. One common misconception, however, is that only those undergraduates who live off campus are required to pay the $310 college facilities fee when, in fact students living on campus...
...will have to sit down and talk with us. They'll realize they can't get away with just throwing up roadblocks. The ball will be in their court." But if the Democrats override the veto and enact their own program, the President will be able to claim that he at least prodded them into action. Said Ford: "If we hadn't been tough, we wouldn't have gotten this far this fast...
...producers' would-be imitators can claim much success. An attempt by several Latin American countries to jack up world banana prices through a universal $1-per-box export tax failed because Ecuador felt that it could not afford to go along. A cartel of four copper-exporting countries agreed last November to try to force up prices by reducing shipments 10%. But demand and prices have continued to fall, and last week the copper countries decided to fight back by holding another 5% of their production off the market. The copper countries are now considering holding more of their...
Doubles Partner. Since then, Kennerly has become an extension of the Ford family. He now spends weekends at Camp David, is the President's doubles partner on the tennis courts and is probably personally closer to the President than any other White House assistant. He does not claim, however, to advise Ford on policy, though he says: "After hours we talk about a range of things. If he asks my opinion, then I tell him what I think-I don't mess around. But I never say, 'You ought to do this about that...
Lawrence, Kansas lies east of Topeka at the end of a narrow country highway. This road straddles countless hillocks and wanders around farm houses whose claim to the land is older; it is not in a hurry and travelers used to rushing must find it painful going. With the Mercury, I usually; drove the length of it in about an hour...