Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...description of the man by drawing on information from eyewitnesses to the shootings. He is between 20 and 30, from 5 ft. 9 in. to 6 ft., of medium build and lean face, with a thin mustache and possibly a goatee; he may wear a knitted cap. Some witnesses claim that there are two, possibly three assailants...
During the long crossexamination, Mitchell doggedly defended his earlier claim that he was "absolutely not guilty" of any of the nine charges-including six of perjury-brought against him. He took special pains to rebut the testimony given against him by John Dean, who was his protege at the Department.of Justice. In particular, Mitchell denied Dean's claim that Mitchell asked him to intervene with the SEC to delay subpoenas that had been issued against some of Vesco's employees...
...banana republics claim that they need extra revenue partly to pay the higher oil prices posted by the petroleum cartel. The export price of bananas has remained flat for two decades at about 80 per Ib., while retail prices have climbed steadily, mostly to the benefit of three U.S.-owned companies that grow, ship and market the fruit: United Brands, Del Monte and Standard Fruit & Steamship. Acting singly, the growing countries could not get a bigger slice of the banana pie. Unlike petroleum, bananas cannot be stockpiled; in fact, they must be eaten within twelve days of being picked...
...Louisiana Purchase. He founded the University of Virginia and built Monticello. Yet Jefferson the man remains an extraordinarily elusive and ambivalent figure. Historian Dumas Malone, one of the most acute Jeffersonists, ruefully wrote: "I flattered myself that some time I would fully comprehend and encompass him. I do not claim that I have yet done so, and I do not believe that I or any other single person...
Fawn Brodie, a U.C.L.A. history professor, makes no such claim. Instead, she sets out to relate the canonized public Jefferson to the passionate, guilt-ridden private man whose sensual adventures have been glossed over by generations of sanctifying historians. Her "intimate history" is based on far-ranging research and a fairly free reading between the lines of Jefferson's published writings, his 18,000 extant letters to others, and some 25,000 that he received...