Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration warnings had little effect on the Hill. Annoyed by a White House claim that a majority of members of the House International Relations Committee favored the sale, Democratic Congressman Dante Fascell, who represents a heavily Jewish district in Miami, drafted a resolution of disapproval and got a majority of committee members to sign it. Explained Fascell: "We had to demonstrate that there is a serious difference of opinion on this question, that it's not all over." After State Department officials huddled with Fascell and other committee members, the White House indicated that it would be willing...
Lloyd's of London settled Bulgari's insurance claim...
Nonetheless, the myth works well enough in real life, although perhaps not so perfectly as ardent monarchists claim...
...learn, for instance, why Biko himself was not bound by the psychological restrictions he described, or, if he was, how he freed himself. Woods may not have known. Although he was acquainted with Biko, and counted Biko one of his most valued friends, Woods does not claim that Biko confided many personal details to the white editor of the East London Daily Dispatch...
...sincerely believe that the above guidelines for action will give substance--a quality that has been sorely absent--to Harvard's claim that it abhors apartheid. More importantly, this proposal will place the burden of justification of corporate presence on those who should bear it--the corporations themselves...