Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real shareholder responsibility. Indeed, one must question the motives of the Corporation in calling a public hearing which only two of the seven Corporation members even plan to attend. The cavalier, no-show attitude of the individuals who have the final say on investment decisions belies the Corporation's claim that it takes seriously student opinion on this crucial issue...
...dull, hard, sometimes hazardous and completely dead-end job for about half the hourly rate coal miners get, and who will have to pay increased energy prices because of their inflated demands, I am totally without sympathy for their self-pitying whining about the slavelike conditions they claim to work under...
...Egyptians did a 90° turn in their policy by coming here and offering us peace. We did a 90° turn by going all the way toward them in Sinai and some of the way in the West Bank. People always claim that from a security point of view, perhaps we are exaggerating. I would like to remind you that we are 3 million, surrounded by about 100 million. It's very interesting to be part of a 3 million population surrounded directly by 70 million to 80 million and be branded an aggressor...
...point men: lawyers who specialize in settling personal-injury suits steered to them by other lawyers. The ten-point man often manages a settlement simply by bribing an insurance-claim adjuster. He gets his nickname because, for this service, he is usually paid 10% of the total settlement, keeping half and giving the other half to the claim adjuster as a payoff...
Because CUE and ERG have endorsed Faculty Council action on important amendments, pro-Core Faculty members will be able to state in the upcoming Faculty debate that the students support the Core Curriculum. The claim will have some justification, because students on CUE voted almost unanimously with the professors to endorse the Faculty Council measures...