Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President is not confined to single acts but often embraces a course of conduct over a span of time involving many acts. To be specific would produce lengthy and com plex articles. The framers of the articles, moreover, did not want to be confined too strictly to each specific claim, since that would limit the evidence that could eventually be used in the Senate...
...share with the Judiciary the power to override a presidential veto." Quoting directly from Chief Justice John Marshall's decision in Marbury v. Madison, the court said, "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is" with respect to the claim of privilege presented in this case...
Since January, 280 critics of the regime, most of them students, have been arrested under decrees making political dissent a crime-in some cases punishable by death. Park has tried to justify the harsh measure as a defense against a Communist takeover, but his critics claim that his real motive is to eliminate his domestic opponents...
...Investigations. The Senators are probing a federal medical-insurance program called CHAMPUS (Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services), the benefits of which Include payment for the care of emotionally disturbed children of military personnel in 486 schools and psychiatric centers round the country. Senate investigators claim that CHAMPUS administrators do not properly check out facilities before handing over money. Green Valley, they point out, has received $1.2 million from the Government over a three-year period to perpetrate outrages that Committee Chairman Henry Jackson called worthy of "Hitler, Use Koch and Buchenwald...
...small cars. Next year, a long-awaited small Cadillac will be introduced. It will be two feet shorter than a full-size Caddy, but will carry the same $10,000 price tag as an Eldorado coupe. In 1975, Chevrolet will also roll out a rotary-powered Vega with a claim that it has overcome many of the fuel-economy problems suffered by Mazda...