Word: claiming
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...difference between the protesting students and university policy makers is not one of words or of intent, but of action. The students have been true to their consciences in speaking out to the appropriate higher-ups. Can university policy makers claim to have used their voices to the fullest extent possible? David E. Keyes, G.S. 1, Division of Applied Sciences
...Harvard crews, the Sprints had always been a festive occasion, a day to display the dominance Crimson oarsmen had exerted on the sport and claim the awards and recognition they so justly deserved...
...those teaching fellows who argue that divestiture is insufficient, I ask: when has any revolution, however bloody or peaceful, begun with a claim for complete relief? The Brown decision, twenty five years old on May 17 of this year, surely did not end segregation or discrimination in our schools or in the rest of the country. It was a puny step, but a step in the right direction, a moral act. It led to an end of the most virulent segregation, and paved the way for other civil rights decisions. When Nixon was first attacked for Watergate, who expected...
What allows the theory such wide-ranging applications is its emphasis on qualitative rather than quantitative analysis. What matters is not when or not to what extent something will happen, but whether it will take place at all. Thus catastrophe theorists can claim to understand phenomena other mathematical approaches cannot explain: naturally-occuring discontinuities or "jumps." Since the time of Newton and Leibniz, founders of the calculus three centuries ago, mathematical models in science have been concerned with the regular rotation of planets, the gradual increase in pressure of a gas being heated and the continuously-changing velocity...
...since the evidence is not at all tangible or quantifiable. It seems as if the only hope of verifying the model is to wait for a nuclear disaster to occur and then analyze the effects with hindsight. If we are truly at a "critical turning point" as the authors claim, then it should be apparent very soon whether we are to have many power plants or none...