Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Giant corporations in the U.S. will jostle one another for control of it. The Russians are bound to use the power but never pay for it. After all, they will claim, "we invented the black hole." In England, the coal miners will strike. The French won't participate, preferring instead to have their own black hole. The Germans will set up an efficient power company, claim they are not getting their share and march into Poland...
...special assistant to Bok and chairman of the advisory committee, spent a good part of his week trying to stem the tide of opposition to his committee's work. He responded to Guinier's charge by saying that the 1969 prospectus on which the Afro chairman is staking his claim has been superseded by 1973 Faculty legislation mandating that the DuBois Institute be established on a University-wide basis...
...Gardner bought what she liked--that was her only criteria. Bernard Berenson (who would will his Florentine villa to Harvard) was her European buyer; he found that the best way to sell her anything was to claim it had been painted for, or had belonged to, an Isabella. She bought one of the world's 36 Vermeers because she found it "charming," and a portrait of Mary Tudor because the queen wears a pearl that once belonged to Isabella of Spain...
Butler said the wages of Harvard lithographers compare favorably with those of most lithographers in the area. Norton countered Butler's claim, saying it was misleading to compare the wages of Harvard lithographers with those of nonunion lithographers...
...abolishing credit. After all, he asked, "What department would approve the courses?" But the comment reportedly made by Col. Robert H. Pell, professor of Military Science and director of Army ROTC, that the CEP resolution "couldn't have pleased me more" made ROTC opponents uneasy about Wilson's claim...