Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unions in 1975. The unions argued that Government pressure had led the company to welsh on seniority requirements for promotion, agreements that had been spelled out in union contracts. The unions' main target was the threat to their seniority preference plans, not other elements of affirmative action. Their claim was rejected in the spring of 1977 by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court last week refused to review that decision...
...first difficulty arose in 1975 when the EPA decided to make Seabrook an exception to the rule. NRC, which holds final licensing power, issued a preliminary permit in 1976. This was done even though Government scientists had not fully studied the likely consequences of seawater cooling, which environmentalists claim is harmful to sea life. The utilities rushed to begin construction; the companies have now spent $400 million on the project, on the theory that the more they build, the harder the plant will be to stop. Meanwhile, company lawyers sought a permanent exemption from the cooling-tower requirement. This involved...
...little wonder that George Gallup and Louis Harris get conflicting signals when they ask questions in the far corners of the land. Many of these people now see government as an adversary; yet they rush into its embrace to claim their share of money that they feel they paid. There are no villains in this landscape...
...never been an attack on Versailles since the reign of Louis XIV." The palace, which is located about twelve miles west of Paris, had remained unscathed during the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870, as well as during the first and second World Wars. Responsibility for the bombing was claimed by three extremist groups: Unemployment International, the Revolutionary Worker Group and a military wing of the Breton Liberation Front. French authorities took the Breton claim seriously. A telephone tip turned up a letter from the Breton Republican Army. Signed Youenn ar sorn (Little Salamander in the Breton language, which is related...
Once on the court, however, he wrote a ringing decision striking down Nixon's claim that the Government did not need a court order to bug suspected domestic security risks. Similarly, Powell once approvingly told the American Bar Association that the Supreme Court seemed to be moving away from usurping the authority of the Legislative Branch. But on the bench, he voted with the majority in a decision that not only legalized abortions but set forth unusually detailed guidelines on them...