Word: claiming
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...biggest federal giveaways since Congress handed out land for a two-company transcontinental railroad in 1862." As a generation of historians has made abundantly clear, the rate reductions accorded the U.S. by all the federal grants between 1850 and 1871 brought back to the Treasury far more (some claim nine times as much) than the value of the granted lands. If the bill has a similar outcome, both the Treasury and the humble taxpayer will have cause for rejoicing...
...opened." Stephen Clarke was the Tribune's financial editor from 1863 to 1869, the year he died, and inside the envelope are photographs of him, his wife Charlotte, son Henry, and daughters Charlotte and Mary Jane. The requested notice for the Clarke heirs to step forward and claim the family portraits was duly placed in the New York Times by a Manhattan autograph dealer last week. The remaining contents of the capsule are to be sold at public auction...
...claim that the milk donations were never mentioned at Nixon's meetings with milk officials does not seem conclusive. Sophisticated lobbyists rarely couple a donation openly with a requested favor; the money is expected to speak for itself. Yet even this contention by Nixon was challenged last week by attorneys for Ralph Nader, who is suing the Administration for basing the support hike on political grounds. The attorneys filed a brief in a Washington federal court quoting from a subpoenaed tape of Nixon's March 23 meeting, contending that it showed that the President may have been obliquely...
That record companies and pop magazines pushed Dylan as prophet was natural. If Dylan did not strenuously reject the title, he did not truly claim the mantle either. As early as 1964, Dylan could write songs like "My Back Pages," caricaturing his earlier moralism as over serious self righteousness...
...doctors now claim that their original statements connecting experimentation on diseased brains, urban riots, and the brains of the non-diseased was a "clinical" error. They will now restrict their research and treatment to patients with a specific type of brain disease-violence in temporal lobe epileptics, and in the course of their research find out more about the structure of the brain. In their book, however, two of the patients were not epileptics but were diagnosed as diseased because of violent behavior or because of abnormal brain wave patterns...