Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brien added that Laughlin and Ginsburg do not claim that the inherited genetic abilities of one culture are better than another, only "different...
...arguing that the book is dangerous on narrower if no less vital grounds. It fears that the book will expose secret operations and covers, jeopardize if not eliminate relations with foreign secret services, and encourage other disgruntled employees to spill what they know or claim to know about the agency. The conflict is yet another example of the public's "right to know" v. the national interest; there is no easy answer...
Aversion therapy has been widely criticized. Says one social scientist: "I think doctors who emphasize aversion conditioning are misguided. They claim that they are curing alcoholics by giving them a shot in the behind, which makes them sick. But how long does that really last?" A program that draws even more fire is one in which doctors study alcoholism by offering drinks to alcoholics. Indeed, Dr. Edward Gottheil, who oversees such a research project at the Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital in Pennsylvania, admits that his work is "extremely controversial." Still, he argues, traditional centers either study alcoholics without their alcohol...
...drinks the allowable maximum every hour, a patient can achieve a considerable buzz by 9 p.m. More important, 13 times every day he must make a conscious decision: to drink or not to drink. In a follow-up study of their first group, Gottheil and his associates claim that, after six months, approximately half of the group members were either dry or drinking less than twice a week...
Ironically, some ex-Chavistas claim, U.F.W.A. dispatchers at the halls are guilty of the same arbitrary work assignments that made the contractors hated. Members of large families with only one car between them have been sent to widely separated fields. In some cases, workers say, U.F.W.A. dispatchers have played favorites. "Once I had to wait four hours last year before I could get dispatched," says Grape Picker Gloria Esquirrel, a former U.F.W.A. member. "The people who had put in time on the picket lines were sent out first." Since farm workers are generally paid by the hour (average wage...