Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Resolution 242 calls on Israel to withdraw from territories occupied in 1967, Begin came to power last year on a platform proclaiming that Israel's right to the West Bank was "eternal." Many of Begin's countrymen are even more adamant in arguing the Bible-based claim to the area. Last week Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), a religious nationalist movement led by Hanan Porat that has sponsored many of the West Bank pioneers, demanded that the government confiscate Arab land to provide for new Jewish settlements...
...Monty Python TV skit, an insurance agent blandly informs a client that his premiums have been low only because his policy states, way down in the fine print: "No claim made by you will be paid...
...Chicagoan, who requests anonymity because he works for Allstate Insurance Co., reports: "After an 18-year accident-free driving record, I put in my first claim this winter, for $350. I was not at fault; someone skidded into me on the ice. Now my insurance company [not Allstate] is going to increase my premium...
Auto insurers base premiums on actuarial tables showing the frequency of claims made by policyholders classified by such factors as age, sex, marital status, occupation and even neighborhood. People who get socked the hardest are those who are single, under 25 (particularly young men), residents of central cities and who work as laborers, waitresses or musicians or who serve in the armed forces. Since a small percentage of people account for an inordinate number of claims, actuaries figure that if a client makes a claim, the statistical chances rise that he will make another, and so his premiums rise...
...highly inflationary, will hinder U.S. relations with exporting countries, notably the Philippines and the Dominican Republic, and will fan protectionism in the U.S. The White House estimates that the measure will cost consumers an extra $700 million a year, a figure that Church's supporters and Government sugar experts claim is exaggerated. In any case, the bill is opposed by the Consumer Federation of America as well as candy and soft-drink makers and other big users of sugar; it is supported by the farmers and most of Big Labor...