Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Editors: Your assertion in "Israel Severs the Arm" [March 27] that "as might have been expected, the Israeli response vastly exceeded the provocation" is outrageous. What would you recommend as an appropriate response to the wanton murder of innocent babies, children and adults by terrorists who brazenly claim credit and then hide behind a national boundary and prepare to strike again? The Israeli response was restrained...
...think black leaders, teachers and psychologists claim so much that the black TV image is distorted; they are irritated because the medium is exploiting a reality of black culture, perpetuating what is, but what the black leaders would like to make into what...
...policemen's defense lawyers promptly retorted that the U.S. Attorney was "making political speeches rather than legal points." Indeed there were grounds to question Justice's actions. Technically, the only way the Justice Department could find to challenge Judge Sterling was to claim that suspension of the sentence was illegal for so serious a crime under federal law. One expert on Justice Department procedures argued: "The Houston sentence is not illegal and the department knows it isn't illegal. But there's no other way to appeal...
...Guinea, the winged bean is old potatoes. A sturdy, largely disease-resistant vine, it requires very little attention and grows with ease in rainy, tropical areas. The winged bean does more than just fill stomachs. Indonesians traditionally use extracts to treat eye and ear infections and cure dyspepsia; Malaysians claim a lotion concocted from the plant helps soothe smallpox...
...wise. The very types of abuses and unethical procedure which Rorvik cites as dangers of cloning are prevalent in Darwin's work and are likely to happen again as long as methods are not open to scrutiny by the public and by colleagues. For example, Rorvik's claim in the book that a millionaire without an heir can be considered a suitable subject for cloning is, at the very least, questionable...