Word: claiming
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...noises like the motorcycle engine, they identified four separate "high spike" sounds that they say were gunfire (to the ear, no gunshots are discernible when the tape is played normally). Their technique, they say, enables them to locate the origin of a sound to within two feet, and they claim that the fourth shot (actually the third in the sequence) was definitely from the grassy knoll...
...Department prepared a summary of the Administration's view of the achievements of the negotiations and the hurdles remaining; its aim, said a White House aide, was simply to "explain the facts," which include the U.S. insistence that Sadat's demands were not new, as the Israelis claim, but have been under discussion since early November...
...orbital timing changes of only one fifty-millionth of a second. This superaccurate timer revealed that in those four years the orbital period of the objects had decreased a total of four ten-thousandths of a second. That was exactly on the Einsteinian mark. Said Taylor: "We don't claim to have detected gravitational waves themselves, but simply proved they exist...
...have been caused by other influences, perhaps the tug of another unknown massive object. Still, Smarr and other astrophysicists seemed generally impressed. Said the University of Rochester's David Douglass, who was handing out buttons in Munich saying GRAVITY WAVES DO EXIST: "It is quite unlikely that Taylor's claim will be disproved...
Unfortunately, budget trimming by OMB seems small when weighed against the remorseless growth of federal expenditures that are mandated by law. Such "entitlement programs" as Social Security. Medicare and federal pensions account for nearly two-thirds of the budget, and in HEW they claim 89c of every dollar. Social Security alone costs $104 billion. Unless the growth of benefits is slowed, the whole Social Security system?as well as the budget?will be in deep trouble. Says Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office: "If you're really concerned about the growth in Government, then you have...