Word: claiming
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...bills," he should be informed that Dr. Samuel Johnson put it even more strongly (on April 5, 1776) when he said, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." Boswell disagreed, but perhaps some feel that he is still covered by Johnson's claim...
...deal was bracing news not only for the postal workers, who generally expressed satisfaction with the terms, but also for Jimmy Carter. At long last, the White House could claim its first credible victory in the struggle to curb spiraling wage settlements. Big Labor's earlier successes in winning 10% or more in annual pay increases are threatening to push up still higher the nation's inflation rate, which is once again in double digits...
According to the new legislation, any 18-year-old girl claiming religious scruples would be exempt "without further examination by any board." In the past year the Defense Ministry has already begun operating in the spirit of the proposed law. Result: a 9% rise in exemptions for draft-age women. A report by the Defense Ministry submitted to the Knesset this month predicted that 30% of the 25,283 women due to be drafted this year will claim religious exemptions if the unamended bill passes...
Jarvis ridiculed Headlee's claim that his proposal is the more responsible of the two because it would stabilize tax rates and allow for balanced growth and not require cuts in essential services. Retorted Jarvis: "One is a political petition and the other one a people's petition. Whom do you trust, the politicians or the people? They are not the government. You are the government. We want taxes to go down, not up and not sideways...
Essays on surrealism, the mimetic faculty, Brecht and the Austrian polemicist Karl Kraus support Hannah Arendt's claim that Benjamin was the most important German critic between the world wars. His romantic attachment to anarchy and violence as messianic salvations may remind some readers of Norman Mailer at his steamiest. Yet at times, Benjamin's insights cast prophetic shadows. On the effect of film and advertising, for example: "Before a child of our time finds his way clear to opening a book, his eyes have been exposed to such a blizzard of changing, colorful, conflicting letters that...