Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peking insists that its legal right to the Paracels dates back 2,000 years, to the Han dynasty. Saigon traces its claim back to the reign of Vietnamese Emperor Gia Long at the beginning of the 19th century. Whatever the legalities. Western analysts were surprised that China regarded the Paracels as important enough to warrant the use of arms, especially when Peking has been portraying itself as a peaceful member of the Asian community. Certainly neither the guano deposits nor swallows' nests nor tortoise shells nor edible sea slugs that constitute the islands' sole resources could have prompted...
...develop cirrhosis and other frequently fatal liver diseases? Many doctors, noting the tendency of alcoholics to drink more than they eat, believe that poor nutrition plays a key role. But two researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York now claim that it is drink alone that does the damage. A four-year study has convinced them that even in the well-nourished, alcohol can be lethal to the liver...
...pipeline from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Aqaba, and Egypt is about to build a pipeline from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Suez, skimming off some of the Persian Gulf oil that used to be shipped through the Suez on tankers. Moreover, some oil company officials claim that the cheapest way of all to transport oil is in supertankers too big to run the canal. Even so, a third of the world's tanker tonnage can still fit through the Big Ditch, and for those vessels the sailing time between Persian Gulf ports and Western Europe could...
Temple, LaSalle, St. Josephs, Villanova, and Penn have placed teams in the NCAA post-season tournament for 16 straight years. No other city, not even Los Angeles, can claim that distinction...
There has been heavy opposition to behavior modification programs since trial programs were established in federal prisons. Though in theory behavior modification works only with positive reinforcement, critics claim that when put in practice in a prison, it necessarily entails negative pressure...